I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice pr…

P. G. Wodehouse
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I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir? ✨ P. G. Wodehouse (2015). Right Ho, Jeeves, p.70, Booklassic
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I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir? ✨ P. G. Wodehouse (2015). Right Ho, Jeeves, p.70, Booklassic

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