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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
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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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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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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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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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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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 would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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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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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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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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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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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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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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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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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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