I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she…

P. G. Wodehouse
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I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit. ✨ P. G. Wodehouse (2015). Right Ho, Jeeves, p.10, Booklassic
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