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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
Frederic Ogden Nash
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I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
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There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.
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When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
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