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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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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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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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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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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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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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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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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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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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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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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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