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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

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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
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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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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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