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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

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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
Virtue
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Anything

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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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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 is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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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I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
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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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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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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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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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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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