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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Part
Better
Never
Instant
Cease
Exist
Beauty
Forever

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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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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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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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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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