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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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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Humorist
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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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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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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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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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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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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