Don Marquis Quotes on Ethics
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each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches
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a robin said to an angleworm as he ate him i am sorry but a bird has to live somehow the worm being slow witted could not gather his dissent into a wise crack and retort he was effectually swallowed before he could turn a phrase
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A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.