“There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”
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“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.”
― Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
― Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
― The Code of the Woosters
― The Code of the Woosters
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated."
[Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]”
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[Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]”
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