“a Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.”

—  Leonard Wibberley

Source: The Mouse that Roared, p. 5.

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Irish-American author 1915–1983

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