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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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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
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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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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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There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
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