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Wodehouse

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Quotes by Wodehouse

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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.
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I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
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...and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.
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I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so.""It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.
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As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
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There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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What ho!" I said."What ho!" said Motty."What ho! What ho!""What ho! What ho! What ho!"After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.
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The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.