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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.

  Don Marquis

  Hate, Fate, World

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

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  Looks, Slippers, Manage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Cat, Zest, Sea

  1927 archy and mehitabel,'mehitabels extensive past'.

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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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• 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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  Forever, Instant, Cease

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin

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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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  Cheer, Thinking, Digestion

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.364, Doubleday

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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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  New York, People, Trying

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• An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

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  Reform, Whiskey, Stomach

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.563, Doubleday

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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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• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

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  Funny, Pregnancy, Humor

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• I would rather start a family than finish one.

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  Family, Pumpkin, Starting A Family

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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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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  Government, Matter, Administration

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

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• This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

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  Life, Grief, Eye

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• Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

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  Freedom, America, Literature

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• I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

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  Men, Atheism, Proud

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Anchor

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• the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

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  Cost Of Living, Pay, Economics

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Doubleday

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• The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

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  Female, Retreat, Dangerous

  Don Marquis (1950). “The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel”, Doubleday Books

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• i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

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  Sleep, Moon, Oysters

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.272, Penguin

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• One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

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  Important, Literature, Care

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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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  Death, Laughter, Grief

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

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