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What's The Use?

by Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash

Sure, deck your limbs in pants,
Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.
You look divine as you advance . . .
Have you seen yourself retreating?




Quotes of the Day

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
• Ilka Chase


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  • Ellis Parker Butler
    No Beer, No Work
    by Ellis Parker Butler
    The shades of night was fallin’ slow As through New York a guy did go And nail on ev’ry barroom door A card that this here motter bore: “No beer, no work.” His brow was sad, his mouth was dry;