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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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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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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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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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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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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