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One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
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Frederic Ogden Nash
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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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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Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.
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You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good.
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Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
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Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends
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I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.
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A lady is known by the product she endorses.
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Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
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When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.
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And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
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All that glitters is sold as gold.
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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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Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.
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Don't over-analyze your marriage it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
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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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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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Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.
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