Before the War you took your secretary to Paris and called … - Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft

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Before the War you took your secretary to Paris and called her your wife. Now, in order to wriggle through the tax-gatherer's net, you take your wife to Paris and call her your secretary.

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Stormont Mancroft (27 July 1914 – 14 September 1987) was a British Conservative politician and humorous writer.

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