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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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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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