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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
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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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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.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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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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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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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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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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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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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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