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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
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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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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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 takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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