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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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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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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
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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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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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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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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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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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