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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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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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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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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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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
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