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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Humorist
Journalist
Poet
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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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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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
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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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