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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ Eggs, Beans And Crumpets

    Himself strongly in favour of sharing the wealth, it seemed to him that the last thing to place in the hands of an impressionable child was a little wee passbook, starting it off in life-as it infallibly must-with capitalistic ideas out of tune with the trend of modern enlightened thought. Slip a baby ten quid, he reasoned, and before you knew where you were you had got another Economic Royalist on your hands.
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ Eggs, Beans And Crumpets

    The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg. This proof that it was possible for a child, in spite of a rocky start, to turn eventually into a suave and polished boulevardier with finely chiselled features heartened him a good deal, causing him to hope for the best.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ Eggs, Beans And Crumpets

    I see no percentage in your being alive. I wish you were a corpse, preferably a mangled one. I should like to dance on your remains.
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