Quote #69

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

More from Don Marquis

  1. There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
  2. We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
  3. The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
  4. When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
  5. The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
  6. When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
  7. Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
  8. Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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