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I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

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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