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1 " Had his brain been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers. "
― P.G. Wodehouse , Mr. Mulliner Speaking
2 " The drowsy stillness of the summer afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. "
3 " You don't think, John, that you might ultimately come to love Agnes Flack?''I do not.''Love frequently comes after marriage, I believe.''So does suicide. "
4 " I say, you know', said Dudley, awkwardly, 'if I'm in the way, you know, just speak the word and I'll race off to the local pub. I mean to say, don't want to butt in, I mean.''Not at all, Mr--''Finch.''Not at all, Mr. Finch. I am only too delighted', said Lady Wickham, looking at him as if he were a particularly loathsome slug which had interrupted some beautiful reverie of hers in the rose-garden, 'that you were able to come. "
