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

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Marriage... is a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston.

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In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study

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John P. Marquand

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Born: November 10, 1893
Died: July 16, 1960 (aged 66)
Bio: John Phillips Marquand was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938.
Known for:
  1. The Late George Apley (1937)
  2. Wickford Point (1939)
  3. Women and Thomas Harrow (1958)
  4. H. M. Pulham, esquire (1941)
  5. Your Turn, Mr. Moto (1935)

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