John Phillips Marquand

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

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There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

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