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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
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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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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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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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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
Don Marquis
It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
Don Marquis
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.
Don Marquis
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Don Marquis
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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Don Marquis
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
Don Marquis
Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
Don Marquis
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
Don Marquis
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
Don Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis
Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
Don Marquis
