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" I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. "
Ogden Nash
Live
Rather
My Life
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" The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. "
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" The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. "
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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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" People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. "
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" Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. "
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" Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. "
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Never
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" People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. "
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" I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. "
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" Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. "
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" Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? "
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" If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. "
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Earn
Enough
" There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends. "
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" No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done. "
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Done
Never
" The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk. "
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Cow
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" Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. "
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Night
Hope
Home
" One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. "
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Man
Another
" Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. "
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Parents
Children
" A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. "
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Family
" Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. "
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Some
Fun
" The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat. "
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Kitten
Cat
Eventually
" I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine. "
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Saint
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" Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. "
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Man
Been
" Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. "
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Progress
Long
" A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. "
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Side
Wrong
Door
" I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. "
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Right
News
Never
" Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? "
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Late
You
" 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. "
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" Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money? "
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" Too clever is dumb. "
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