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Answering Her According To Her Folly
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A LADY having put to Canning the silly question, Why have they made the
spaces in the iron gate at Spring Gardens so narrow? he replied, O,
ma'am, because such very fat people used to go through (a reply
concerning which Tom Moore remarked that the person who does not relish
it can have no perception of real wit).
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