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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Humorist
Journalist
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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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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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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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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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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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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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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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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