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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Humorist
Journalist
Poet
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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