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I hope of lightning our supply
Will never be exhausted;
You know it's lanterns in the sky
For angels who are losted.
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Perhaps indeed the possession of wealth is constantly distressing,
But I should be quite willing to assume every curse of wealth if I could at the same time assume every blessing.
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure,
Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.
Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny —
Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
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The folk who live in Scandinavia
Are famous for their odd behavia.
They have the frigidest of climates
And avoid their bellicose fellow-primates.
Though salesmen cluster at their door,
They don't want anybody's war.
It isn't that they put on airs;
They merely mind their own affairs.
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So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
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Abracadabra, thus we learn,
The more you create, the less you earn.
The less you earn, the more you're given,
The less you lead, the more you're driven,
The more destroyed, the more they feed,
The more you pay, the more they need
The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul should take
If the tax collector hasn't got it before I wake.
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There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,
Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else...
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Let us pause to consider the English,
Who when they pause to consider themselves they get all reticently thrilled and tinglish,
Because every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.:
That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
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There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze,
And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees,
And they certainly annoy each other,
But they certainly enjoy each other,
Yes, they pretend to flout each other,
But they couldn't do without each other...
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all.
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The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty revolting.
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Home is heaven and orgies are vile,
But you need an orgy once in a while.
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Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
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Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.
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It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
all, and I recommend to you this moral:
In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.
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Whales have calves,
Cats have kittens
Bears have Cubs,
Bats have bittens,
Swans have cygnets,
Seals have puppies,
But guppies just have little guppies.
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We love the kindly wind and hail,
The jolly thunderbolt,
We watch in glee the fairy trail
Of ampere, watt, and volt.
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And I have no desire to get ugly,
But I cannot help mentioning that 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.
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There was a young belle of old Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez.
When comment arose
On the state of her clothes,
She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez.
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No, you never get any fun
Out of the things you haven't done.
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You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,
Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks.
From river to river you comb the town
For a place to lay your family down.
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Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.
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The further through life I drift
The more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
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It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.
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The trouble with a kitten is
THAT
Eventually it becomes a
CAT.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Ogden Nash
Born:
August 19, 1902
Died:
May 19, 1971
(aged 68)
Bio:
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".
Known for:
The Tale of Custard the Dragon (1936)
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The adventures of Isabel (1963)
Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash
The pocket book of Ogden Nash (1955)
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