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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

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I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of w...more

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It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

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You remind me of an old cat I once had. Whenever he killed a mouse he would bring it into the drawing-room and lay it affectionately at my feet. I wou...more

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When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb...more

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Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps ...more

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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges ...more

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be ...more

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Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strang...more

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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

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There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'""The mood will pass, sir.

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She laughed - a bit louder than I could have wished in my frail state of health, but then she is always a woman who tends to bring plaster falling fro...more

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It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a s...more

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[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]:You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more can't possibly hurt you,...more