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I would rather start a family than finish one.

Don Marquis

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Humorist
Journalist
Poet
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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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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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 little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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