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Ogden Nash Quotes: One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.
         

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.


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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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Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.



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