Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away f…

P. G. Wodehouse
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Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling. ✨ P. G. Wodehouse (1999). Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling. ✨ P. G. Wodehouse (1999). Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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