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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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