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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

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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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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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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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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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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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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