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Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
Screenwriter
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New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.
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We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.
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O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
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Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
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Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.
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I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
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At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.
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You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good.
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All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
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Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
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Professional men, they have no cares whatever happens, they get theirs.
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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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