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Quote by Don Marquis
a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquit

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 – Don Marquis

Other quotes by Don Marquis

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

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Money
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Don Marquis
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. – Don Marquis

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Birthday
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Other Quotes from
Insects
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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. – Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company

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Insects

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. – Bill Vaughan

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Insects

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. – Mark Twain

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Insects

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. – Tama Janowitz

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Insects

Random Quotes

Its cool to go to a place that has posters up and its one night only. It feels more special. – Todd Barry

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cool

Many things have been said about what happened, but I dont know either. Maybe someday. One thing Im sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today. – Pete Best

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sad

When I wasnt famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football. – Mario Balotelli

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famous

I dont look on poetry as closed works. I feel theyre going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. – John Ashbery

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Poetry