[Millionaire-financier Vincent Jopp said:] "Go out and buy … - P. G. Wodehouse

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[Millionaire-financier Vincent Jopp said:] "Go out and buy me a set of clubs, a red jacket, a cloth cap, a pair of spiked shoes, and a ball."
--"One ball?"
"Certainly. What need is there of more?"
--"It sometimes happens," I explained, "that a player who is learning the game fails to hit the ball straight, and then he often loses it in the rough at the side of the fairway."
"Absurd!" said Vincent Jopp. "If I set out to drive my ball straight, I shall drive it straight."

P. G. Wodehouse

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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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