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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

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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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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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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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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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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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