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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
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New York
United States
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All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
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Too much Chablis can make you whablis.
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He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.
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Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
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When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
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It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important
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I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
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Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.
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Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
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A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.
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Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?
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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.
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