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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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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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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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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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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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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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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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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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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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