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I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

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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Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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Professional men, they have no cares whatever happens, they get theirs.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.
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Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead 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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A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
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Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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