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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

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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
People
Sarcasm
Paid
Standing
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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
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