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If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.

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
Encounter
Encounters
Chocolate
Fewer
Assorted
Boxes
Bitten
Shape
Announce
Shapes
Returned
Willing
Filling

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