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The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
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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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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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.
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Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.
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