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Quote by Don Marquis
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. – Don Marquis

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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. – Don Marquis

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. – Don Marquis

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a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat – Don Marquis

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We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. – Shirley Abbott

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The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. – Ron Reagan

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