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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

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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
Much
Tells
Blood
Often
Tell

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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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