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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man With Two Left Feet and

    Mary, in these days, simply couldn't see that he was on the earth. She looked round him, above him, and through him, but never at him;
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man With Two Left Feet and

    Jack: "We were in danger. We shall probably get pneumonia."Mary: "Isch!""There! You're sneezing already.""I am not sneezing. That was an exclamation of disgust.""It sounded like a sneeze. It must have been, for you've every reason to sneeze; but why you should utter exclamations of disgust I cannot imagine.""I'm disgusted with you-with your meanness. You deliberately tricked me into saying--""Saying--?"She was silent."What you said was that you loved me with all your heart and soul. You can't get away from that, and it's good enough for me.""Well, it's not true any longer.""Yes, it is," said Wilton, comfortably, "bless it.""It is not. I'm going right away now, and I shall never speak to you again."She moved away from him, and prepared to sit down."There's a jelly-fish just where you're going to sit," said Wilton."I don't care.""It will. I speak from experience, as one on whom you have sat so often.""I'm not amused.""Have patience. I can be funnier than that." - Wilton's Holiday
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man With Two Left Feet and

    She threw in the last suggestion entirely in a sporting spirit. She loved battle, and she had a feeling that this one was going to finish far too quickly. To prolong it, she gave him this opening. There were a dozen ways in which he might answer, each more insulting than the last; and then, when he had finished, she could begin again. These little encounters, she held, sharpened the wits, stimulated the circulation, and kept one out in the open air.- The Romance of an Ugly Policeman
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man With Two Left Feet and

    They walked on in silence. Katie's heart was beating with a rapidity that forbade speech. Nothing like this very direct young man had ever happened to her before. She had grown so accustomed to regarding herself as something too insignificant and unattractive for the notice of the lordly male that she was overwhelmed. She had a vague feeling that there was a mistake somewhere. It surely could not be she who was proving so alluring to this fairy prince. The novelty of the situation frightened her.
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  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man With Two Left Feet and

    Mother always used to say, 'If you want to succeed in life, please the women. They are the real bosses. The men don't count.
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man With Two Left Feet and

    He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man With Two Left Feet and

    It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.
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