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Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

Ogden Nash

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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
Miracle
Monster
Monsters

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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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Snow is all right while it is snowing it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.
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Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
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Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
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