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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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  Worry, Balance, Problem

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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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  God, Wings, Wish

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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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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  Believe, Want, Ghost

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.254, Penguin

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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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  Money, Mistake, Inheritance

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• Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

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  Irritation, Personality, Able

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• My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

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  Heart, Names, My Heart

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

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  Art, Literature, Newspapers

  In E. Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962) p. 354

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• There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

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  Running, Country, Tyrants

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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• What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

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  Men, Civilization, Desert

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

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  Funny Inspirational, Business, Work

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• personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

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  Humble, Ambition, Cockroaches

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.256, Penguin

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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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  Honesty, Good Things, Profitable

  archys life of mehitabel (1933) "archygrams"

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• For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

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  Hate, Fate, World

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• It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

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  Work Out, My Family, Observation

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.395, Doubleday

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• Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

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  Men, Literature, Virtue

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• Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

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  Looks, Slippers, Manage

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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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  Men, Skulls, Clothes

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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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  Funny, Dog, Blood

  Don Marquis (1922). “The Revolt of the Oyster”

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• There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

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  Years, Mosquitoes, Sage

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• That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

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  Atheism, Saws, Puritan

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.69, Doubleday

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• By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

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  Men, Order, Knowing

  Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

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• If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

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  Lying, People, Would Be

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• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

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  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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• A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

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  Funny, Humor, Admission

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