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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
Spirit
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Government
Matter
Nearly
Much
Administration
Matters
Brought
Intelligence

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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
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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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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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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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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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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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