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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

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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
Atheism
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Country
Reformed
Dive
Slips
Nose
Noses

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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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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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