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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

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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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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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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
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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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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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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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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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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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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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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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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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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 certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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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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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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