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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

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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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Time
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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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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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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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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
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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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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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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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