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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
Don Marquis
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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.
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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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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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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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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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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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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 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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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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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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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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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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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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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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