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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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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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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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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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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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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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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
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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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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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