Inimitable Quote by P.G. Wodehouse

““I left him thinking it over. If I were a bookie, I should feel justified in offering a hundred to eight against." "You can't have approached him properly. I might have known you would muck it up," said young Bingo. Which, considering what I had been through for his sake, struck me as a good bit sharper than the serpent's tooth.””

P.G. Wodehouse

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