"It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin."
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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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"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" (1959)
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Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash (19 August 1902 β 19 May 1971) was an American poet.
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