A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lu… - P. G. Wodehouse

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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

P. G. Wodehouse

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About P. G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (/ˈwʊdhaʊs/; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years.

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Pen Names: Henry William-Jones • P Brooke-Haven • Pelham Grenville • Melrose Grainger • J Walker Williams • C P West

Birth Name: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Native Name: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Alternative Names: P.G. Wodehouse

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Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’

A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

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