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A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

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
Book
Plunge
Looks
Ignorant
Never
Picture
Like
Bird
Changed
Open
Plumage
Books
Birdie
Back
Plunges

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