Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long.

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Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long.

Ogden Nash

1959

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1959

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Nash, Ogden. "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours." The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 1959.

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