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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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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
Makes
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Alloy
Expediency
Improves
Morality
Wear
Gold
Longer

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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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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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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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