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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
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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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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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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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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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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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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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
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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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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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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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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
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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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