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Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
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New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.
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The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state the dog is full of love. I've also proved, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest.
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The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good.
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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
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I was born a jackdaw why should I try to be an owl?
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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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Professional men, they have no cares whatever happens, they get theirs.
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I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.
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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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One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
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