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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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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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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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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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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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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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