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Chocolate
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If some confectioners were willing
To let the shape announce the filling,
We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
Bitten into and returned to the box.
-Ogden Nash
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Family
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
-Ogden Nash
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Insects
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Some primal termite knocked on wood;
and tasted it, and found it good.
That is why your Cousin May
fell through the parlor floor today.
-Ogden Nash, The Termite
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Marriage
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A little incompatibility is the spice of life, as long as he has income and she is pattable.
-Ogden Nash
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Men & Women
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
-Ogden Nash
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Morals
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He without benefit of scruples
His fun and money soon quadruples.
-Ogden Nash
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Parenting
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
-Ogden Nash
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Taxation
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Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all year.
-Ogden Nash, Thar She Blows (1949)
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Technology
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O misery, misery, mumble and moan!
Someone invented the telephone,
And interrupted a nation's slumbers,
Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
-Ogden Nash, Look What You Did, Christopher
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Trees
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I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-Ogden Nash
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Books by and about Ogden Nash
