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It began to be borne in upon Lord Ickenham that in planning to appeal to the Duke’s better feelings he had omitted to take into his calculations the fact that he might not have any.

— P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)

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Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

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It is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

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