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Norway...looked to Roosevelt as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.

Edmund Morris

Norway...looked to Roosevelt as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.

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About Edmund Morris

Edmund Morris may refer to:

Edmund Morris (MP for Leominster) (fl. 1410)
Edmund Morris (writer) (1940–2019), biographer of US presidents Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris (MP for Leicestershire) (c. 1686–1759), English politician
Edmund L. Morris (1923–2003), Canadian Member of Parliament for Halifax riding
Edmund Finucane Morris (1792–1871), British Army officer
Edmund Montague Morris (1871–1913), Canadian painter