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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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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
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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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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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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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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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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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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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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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