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Don't over-analyze your marriage it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

Ogden Nash

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
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Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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Indoor
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Analyze
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Roots
Marriage
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