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    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: cats, death, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Чудомир
    “Една лъжа може да обиколи света, докато истината още си връзва обувките.”
    ― Чудомир
    tags: bg, bulgarian, wisdom, български, мъдрост
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: humor, love
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
    tags: apologies, apologizing, humor, people, taking-advantage
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: bad-mood, disgruntlement, humor
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
    tags: fate, humor, pessimism
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “What ho!" I said.
    "What ho!" said Motty.
    "What ho! What ho!"
    "What ho! What ho! What ho!"
    After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.”
    ― Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
    tags: conversation, humor, humour
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I always advise people never to give advice.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: advice
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “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 strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
    tags: disappointment, humor, moroseness, russia, satire, sorrow, tolstoy
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
    "The mood will pass, sir.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: appearance, bad-mood, clothes, dejection, humor
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
    tags: depression, humor, melancholy, wit
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: disappointment, expression, face, life, satire
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , Mike and Psmith
    tags: humor, misfortune, sombre-mood
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Moonshine
    tags: literary-criticism
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    The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at
    “The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally
    tags: guns, humor, hunting, perspective, shooting
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”
    ― Wodehouse
    tags: french, grey-hair, guillotine, humor, old-age
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: cheating, fate, humor, misfortune, top-8, unfairness
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof. ”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Doctor Sally
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Small Bachelor
    tags: blandness, humor, lack-of-feeling, love, lovelessness, marriage, married-life, matrimony, sarcasm
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves
    tags: humor, new-york-city, temptation
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.'
    Yes, sir?'
    Is it really a frost?'
    A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.'
    But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.'
    Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.'
    He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.'
    I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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