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She snorted with a sudden violence which twenty-four hours earlier would have unmanned me completely. Even in my present tolerably robust condition, it affected me like one of those gas explosions which slay six.

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It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.

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Nature, when planning this sterling fellow, shoved in a lot more lower jaw than was absolutely necessary and made the eyes a bit too keen and piercing for one who was neither an Empire builder nor a traffic policeman.

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'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'
'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'

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P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

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Born: October 15, 1881

Died: February 14, 1975 (aged 93)

Bio: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

Known for:

Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
Leave It to Psmith (1923)
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935)

Most used words:

man, life, aunt, jeeves, time, sir, sort, love, looked, girl, voice, golf, moment, feel, eye

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