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

Don Marquis

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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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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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Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.
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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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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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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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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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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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