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No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

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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
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Brought
Intelligence
Spirit
Form
Government
Matter
Nearly
Much
Administration

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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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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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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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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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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