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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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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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Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm
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