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Ogden Nash Quotes: Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
         

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.


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Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

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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.

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.



When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

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

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



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