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The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Born: Dec 30, 1869
Died: Mar 28, 1944

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