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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ Hot Water

    The world is full of men who ought never to shave their upper lip, and Blair Eggleston was one of them. Coming out into the open, as it were, like this, he had revealed himself the possessor of a not very good mouth. A peevish mouth. The sort of mouth that bred doubts in a girl.
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    I had forgotten you were a bird-watcher till you reminded me just now. You went in for it at Oxford, I remember. It isn't a thing I would care to do myself. Not," I hastened to add, "that I've anything against bird-watching. Must be most interesting, besides keeping you" – I was about to say "out of the public houses" but thought it better to change it to "out in the open air". "What's the procedure?" I went on. "I suppose you lurk in a bush till a bird comes along, and then you out with the glasses and watch it.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jill the Reckless

    Most of the Underhills came into the world looking as though they meant to drive their way through life like a wedge.
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ Psmith in the City

    The Problem of Life seemed to him to be solved. He looked on down the years, and he could see no troubles there of any kind whatsoever. Reason suggested that there were probably one or two knocking about somewhere, but this was no time to think of them. He examined the future, and found it good.
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  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

    I eluded them, therefore, with no great expenditure of physical effort, but I would be deceiving my public if I said that I was enjoying the episode. It offends one's pride when one has to leap like a lamb in Springtime at the bidding of an elderly little Gawd-help-us with whom it is impossible to reason.
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Ultimate Wodehouse

    A man who forgets what day he was married, when he's been married one year, will forget, at about the end of the fourth, that he's married at all."
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Prince and Betty

    Humour, if one looks into it, is principally a matter of retrospect.
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  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Prince and Betty

    The gods are business-like. They sell; they do not give. And for what they sell they demand a heavy price. We may buy life of them in many ways; with our honour, our health, our independence, our happiness; with our brains or with our hands. But somehow or other, in whatever currency we may choose to pay it, the price must be paid.
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  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ Carry On, Jeeves

    I suppose I must be one of the neurotic younger generation you read about in the papers nowadays, because it was pretty plain within half a second that I wasn't strong and I wasn't phlegmatic.
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  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ Carry on, Jeeves

    There are certain moments in life when words are not needed. I looked at Biffy, Biffy looked at me. A perfect understanding linked our two souls."?""!
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  11. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Jeeves & Wooster Series:

    But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is." "Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.
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  12. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    You don't need a hat to tax a man with stealing a pig,' said the Hon. Galahad, who was well versed in the manners and rules of good society.
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