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

Ogden Nash

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
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New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.
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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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Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
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Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
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Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.
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Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
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The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
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