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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Censors
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America

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