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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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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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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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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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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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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
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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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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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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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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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