An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. — Quoted

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“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.”

Don Marquis · Experience

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Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

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Don Marquis

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Family

Don Marquis

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.

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