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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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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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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.
Don Marquis
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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.
Don Marquis
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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
Don Marquis
