"What an arm—what a waist For an arm!"
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To My Grandmother; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Frederick Locker-Lampson
Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) was an English man of letters and poet.
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