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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue

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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
Uplifted
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Virtue
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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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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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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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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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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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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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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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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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