P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Broken
  • Aunt