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There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'

Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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