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The Poet Empress

by Shen Tao (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 22, 2026 07:57PM

“We all shook hands, and the policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner and began to contemplate the infinite.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

tags: chewing-gum, dry-humour, humour, policemen

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“You must meet old Rowbotham, Bertie. A delightful chap. Wants to massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy. Well, nothing could be fairer than that, what?”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

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“The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance."
"What did he say about your appearance?"
"I have forgotten, sir," said Jeeves, with a touch of austerity. "But it was opprobrious.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

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