P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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'Well now,' he said, 'was I as good as you were when you were me?'
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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To waft a feather or to drown a fly.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
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During a heavy storm at sea a nervous woman passenger on a large liner went to the captain, seeking reassurance. "Captain," she asked tremulously, "are we in great danger?" "Don't worry, madam," he answered, "after all, we in the hands of God." "Oh," she gasped, terror written on her face, "is it as bad as that?"
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I like the pause that tea allows.
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If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
