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The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. – Don Marquis

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When the wine goes in, strange things come out. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799

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