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A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

Ogden Nash

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
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New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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