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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
P. G. Wodehouse
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P. G. Wodehouse
Age: 93 †
Born: 1881
Born: January 1
Died: 1975
Died: January 1
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?
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It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.
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He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
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But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.
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