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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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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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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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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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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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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 things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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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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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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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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