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1 " I want to see the manager." "Is there anything I could do, sir?" Archie looked at him doubtfully. "Well, as a matter of fact, my dear old desk-clerk," he said, "I want to kick up a fearful row, and it hardly seems fair to lug you into it. Why you, I mean to say? The blighter whose head I want on a charger is the bally manager. "
― P.G. Wodehouse , Indiscretions of Archie
2 " Much has been written on the subject of bed-books. The general consensus of opinion is that a gentle, slow-moving story makes the best opiate "
3 " He looked like a horse with a secret sorrow. He coughed three times, like a horse who, in addition to a secret sorrow, had contracted asthma. "
4 " It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for? "
5 " But he has. Much funnier." In a way it was a sort of compliment, but Archie felt embarrassed. He withdrew coyly into the cushioned recess. "
