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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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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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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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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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Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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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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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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