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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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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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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 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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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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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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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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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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