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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.

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
Intelligence
Spirit
Form
Government
Matter
Nearly
Much
Administration
Matters
Brought

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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.
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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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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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