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Ogden Nash Quotes: I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
         

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.


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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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