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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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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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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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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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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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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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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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Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
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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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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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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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