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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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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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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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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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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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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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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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