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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
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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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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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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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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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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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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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