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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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Illinois
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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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 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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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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