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Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
Monster
Monsters
Miracle

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Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.
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Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
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Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
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Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and sup with. They interfere with the discipline of nurseries, And forget anniversaries, And when they have been particularly remiss, They think they can cure everything with a great big kiss.
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The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
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The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.
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Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.
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Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
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