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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
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