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NUMBER:37975
QUOTATION: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
ATTRIBUTION:Don Marquis (1878–1937), U.S. humorist, journalist. “Certain maxims of archy,” archy and mehitabel (1927).

Full name is Donald Robert Perry Marquis.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
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