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

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
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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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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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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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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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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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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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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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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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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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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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