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"I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, Ill never see a tree at all."
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Ogden NashIt is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of A — Ogden Nash
"It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important And it is what you are doing when you are doing something you oughtnt..."
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Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
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"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are naive."
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"Oh, things are frequently what they seem, And this is wisdoms crown: Only the game fish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down."
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"Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him."
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"Hark, hark! the lark On windswept bark Freezes against a sky of lead! Now see him stop, Take one small hop, And suddenly keel over dead!"
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"Time is timelessness for you; Calendars for the human; Whats a year, or thirty, to Loveliness made woman?"
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