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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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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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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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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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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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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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