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You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in.

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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
Economist
Humorist
Political Scientist
Writer
Hants
Stephen Butler Leacock
Love
Dissolve
Mist
Frame
Inside
Fact
Facts
Cannot
Needs
Depict

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