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I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

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
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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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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I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
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Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?
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