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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death I am alive!
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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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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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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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