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“And certainly, if Lady Julia Fish’s manner had a fault, it was that it resembled a little too closely that of the great lady of a village amusedly trying to make friends with the backward child of one of her tenants.”

English nobility…!!!!

Wodehouse describing a famous Russian novelist: “Vladimir specialized in grey studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happens till page three hundred and eighty, when the moujik decided to commit suicide.”

“Where, I’ve often asked myself, are the great sweeping mustaches of our boyhood? I’ve got a photograph of my grandfather as a young man in the album at home, and he’s just a pair of eyes staring over a sort of quickset hedge.”

Gussie Presents the Prizes
“It was something of the emotions of one preparing a treat for a deserving child, that I finished my tea and rolled over for that extra spot of sleep which just makes all the difference when there is man’s work to be done and the brain must be kept clear for it.”

My Gentle Readers
“The books which I write seem to appeal to a rather specialized public. Invalids like me. So do convicts. And I am all right with the dog-stealers.”