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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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Humorist
Journalist
Poet
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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