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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    There are moments in the life of every man when the impulse attacks him to sacrifice his future to the alluring gratification of the present.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    You know, Bayliss," said Jimmy thoughtfully, rolling over on the couch, "life is peculiar, not to say odd. You never know what is waiting for you round the corner. You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    Bayliss resumed reading. He was one of those readers who, whether their subject be a murder case or funny anecdote, adopt a measured and sepulchral delivery which gives a suggestion of tragedy and horror to whatever they read. At the church he attended, children would turn pale and snuggle up to their mothers when he read.
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  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange back yard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    Mr Pett, receiving her cold glance squarely between the eyes, felt as if he were being disembowelled by a clumsy amateur.
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    You never know what is waiting for you around the corner. You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.
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  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I've known him to do it''Do what?''Not strike lambs
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  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    She was at the valiant age when we burn to right wrongs and succour the oppressed,
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  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ Piccadilly Jim

    You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop."
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