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Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

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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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One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
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A lady is known by the product she endorses.
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All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
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The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions
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Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
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Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!
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Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?
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Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
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Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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Celery, raw, Develops the jaw
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