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“All I tried to do was to give the little brute a cheerful expression. But, as it worked out, he looks positively dissipated.” quote by P. G. Wodehouse — Download Open image

““All I tried to do was to give the little brute a cheerful expression. But, as it worked out, he looks positively dissipated.””

P. G. Wodehouse

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