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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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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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