#landlady

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month. ↗

— John Michael Hayes

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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. ↗

— Albert Camus

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