“Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed
the floor.”

—  Ogden Nash

"You and Me and P. B. Shelley" http://books.google.com/books?id=zixbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Life+is+not+having+been+told+that+the+man+has+just+waxed+the+floor%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage
Good Intentions (1942)

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American poet 1902–1971

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