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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat

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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
Alley
Alleys
Kitten
Damned
Cat
Another
Life

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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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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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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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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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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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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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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 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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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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