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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
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New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
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The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
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Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
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Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
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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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We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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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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Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.
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Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.
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I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
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Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
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