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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You, too, women, cast away all the cowards...If you're stressed at work, or before a competition...What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself...Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...In matters of style, swim with the current...There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky...