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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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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death I am alive!
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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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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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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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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.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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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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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
Don Marquis
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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