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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

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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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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

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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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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: August 19th, 1902

Died: May 19th, 1971

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