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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Ogden Nash

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
Morning
Bodies
Bundle
Keep
Bed
Reluctance
Night
Regret
Bundles
Body
Minds
Bedtime
Every
Early
Insomnia
Mind
Late
Paradox
Make
Leave
Quit
Sleepiness
Sleep
Quitting
Paradoxes

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