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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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