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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
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Screenwriter
Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
Door
Side
Wrong
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Perpetually
Dog

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