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Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

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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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Indeed
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Everybody

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You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good.
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The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
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