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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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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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