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Quote by Ogden Nash
Some primal termite knocked on wood;and tasted it, and found i

Some primal termite knocked on wood;
and tasted it, and found it good.
That is why your Cousin May
fell through the parlor floor today. – Ogden Nash

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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. – Ogden Nash

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Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. – Bradley Millar

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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. – Mark Twain

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Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint. – Joseph W. Krutch

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And a cloud of enraptured, sporting, buzzing little creatures of silk-dust swept or hovered over the undulating picture. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. Thats the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. – William O. Douglas

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