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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
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New York
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Frederic Ogden Nash
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Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
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Don't over-analyze your marriage it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.
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To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.
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You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good.
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Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right
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One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
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The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
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Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.
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Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
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One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
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I was born a jackdaw why should I try to be an owl?
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No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.
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Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
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Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.
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The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good.
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