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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

Don Marquis

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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
Gold
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Alloy
Expediency
Improves
Morality
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