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A bit of talcum Is always walcum.

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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
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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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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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I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
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Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
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Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
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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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There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.
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Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
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Celery, raw, Develops the jaw
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All that glitters is sold as gold.
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The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.
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A lady is known by the product she endorses.
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But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them, With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting.
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Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer
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He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.
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Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
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