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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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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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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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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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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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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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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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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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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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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
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