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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 833 |
| AUTHOR: | Don Marquis (1878–1937) |
| QUOTATION: | what man calls civilization always results in deserts man is never on the square he uses up the fat and greenery of the earth each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches |
| ATTRIBUTION: | DON MARQUIS, “What the Ants Are Saying,” stanza 5, Archy Does His Part, in The Lives and Times of Archy & Mehitabel, p. 475 (1950). |
| SUBJECTS: | Greed |
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