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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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Humorist
Journalist
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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