Don Marquis - Archy and Mehitabel (1927)

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Procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday

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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

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My youth i shall never forget
but there s nothing i really regret
wotthehell wotthehell
there s a dance in the old dame yet
toujours gai toujours gai

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What in hell
have i done to deserve
all these kittens

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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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But wotthehell
archy wotthehell
it s cheerio
my deario that
pulls a lady through.

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No insect likes human beings
and if you think you can see why
the only reason i tolerate you is because
you seem less human to me than most of them

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Dedicated to babs
with babs knows what
and babs knows why

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The high cost of living isn't so bad if you don't have to pay for it.

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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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I
have often noticed that
ancestors never boast
the descendants who boast
of ancestors i would
rather start a family than
one blood will tell but often
it tells too much

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A louse i used to know told me that millionaires and bums tasted about alike to him.

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Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

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I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

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As a representative of the insect world - I have often wondered On what man bases his claims to superiority everything he knows he has had to learn whereas we insects are born knowing everything we need to know

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I scurry around gutters and sewers and garbage cans

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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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Dear boss i relay this information
without any fear that humanity
will take warning and reform

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I have got you out here
in the great open spaces
where cats are cats.

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Every cloud
has its silver
lining but it is
sometimes a little
difficult to get it to
the mint

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Men talk of money and industry
of hard times and recoveries
of finance and economics
but the ants wait and the scorpions wait
for while men talk they are making deserts all the time
getting the world ready for the conquering ant
drought and erosion and desert
because men cannot learn

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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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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

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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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Fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

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It wont be long now It won't be long
till earth is barren as the moon
and sapless as a mumbled bone

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Each generation wastes a little more
of the future with greed and lust for riches

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What man calls civilization
always results in deserts

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