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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
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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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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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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
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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 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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There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
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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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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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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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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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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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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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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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