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Don Marquis Quotes: It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
         

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.


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It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
         



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