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if ‘(NELSON): The quotation was * correctly attributed. It occurs in "The Betrothed," a piece of light verse which Kipling introduced with a quotation-" ‘You must choose between me and your cigar.’ (Breach of Promise Case, circa 1885)." The particular stanza runs, Open the old cigar-box-let me consider anew---Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you? A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke, Calverley may have held the same views on women and tobacco, but he seems to have been more circumspect in airing them.-Jno.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 21
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107Answer to Correspondent New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 21
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