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Don Marquis Quotes: The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
         

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.


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