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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
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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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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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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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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