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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
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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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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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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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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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.
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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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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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