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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
Men
Uplifted
Seduced
Virtue
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Cannot
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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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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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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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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 is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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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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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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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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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