"Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens, And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons."
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Humorists from the United StatesPeople from New York (state)Satirists from the United StatesPoets from the United States
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"Everybody Tells Me Everything" in The Face Is Familiar (1940)
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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash (19 August 1902 β 19 May 1971) was an American poet.
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