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Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on too long.
Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on too long.
Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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- Ogden Nash
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- Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Ogden Nash: documented activity in 1925. Wikidata Q719228, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719228 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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