It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener … - P. G. Wodehouse

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

P. G. Wodehouse

It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

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I always advise people never to give advice.

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Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.

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I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

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A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

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Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.

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