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• If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

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• Boss there is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

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• Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started to happen to somebody else.

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• Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat.

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• Coarse jocosity catches the crowd shakespeare and i are often low browed.

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• Millionaires and bums taste about alike to me.

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• live so that you can stick out your tongue at the insurance.

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• But wotthehell wotthehell oh i should worry and fret death and I will coquette there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai.

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• Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo

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• Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

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• We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

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• There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

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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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• The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

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• Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

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• Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

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• Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.

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• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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• Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

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Don Marquis (55)

Birth:	29th July, 1878
Death:	29th December, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Humorist, Journalist

About

Donald Robert Perry Marquis was born in  Walnut, Illinois. He was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humorous verse. He was the author of about 35 books. He co-wrote to the films The Sports Pages, Shinbone Alley, The Good Old Soak and Skippy. The 1926 film The Cruise of the Jasper B was supposedly based on his 1916 novel of the same name, although the plots have little in common.

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