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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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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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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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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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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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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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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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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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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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