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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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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.
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The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting.
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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
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Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.
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You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good.
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Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
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One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
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Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
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Too much Chablis can make you whablis.
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The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.
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When there are monsters there are miracles.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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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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