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

Don Marquis

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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
Trouble
Thought
Always
Time
Comforting

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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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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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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 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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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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