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Book: Summer Lightning
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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    You don't need a hat to tax a man with stealing a pig,' said the Hon. Galahad, who was well versed in the manners and rules of good society.
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    She looked like something that might have occurred to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    Like most people who have made a defiant and dramatic gesture and then have leisure to reflect, he was oppressed by a feeling that he had gone considerably farther than was prudent. Samson, as he heard the pillars of the temple begin to crack, must have felt the same. Gestures are all very well while the intoxication lasts. The trouble is that it lasts such a very little while.
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    If you brought me Sue Brown or any other girl in the world on a plate with water-cress round her, I wouldn't so much as touch her hand.
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  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    A more practised physiognomist would have been able to interpret that look. It was the one that butlers always wear when they have allowed themselves to be persuaded against their better judgement into becoming accessories before the fact in the theft of their employers' pigs.
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    Her eye was aflame, and she spoke like Cleopatra telling an Ethiopian slave where he got off."
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    Schopenhauer says that all the suffering in the world can't be mere chance. Must be meant. He says life's a mixture of suffering and boredom. You've"
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  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    Life in the country, with its lack of intellectual stimulus, has caused his natural feebleness of mind to reach a stage which borders closely on insanity. His
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  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    Of course I think so. Have you forgotten what I told you the other day?' 'Yes,' said Lord Emsworth. He always forgot what people told him the other day.
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  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head.
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  11. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    He stood looking at the detective like Schopenhauer's butcher at the selected lamb.
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  12. P.G. Wodehouse _ Summer Lightning

    He had reached that condition of mind which the old Vikings used to call Berserk and which among modern Malays is termed running amok.
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