Right Ho, Jeeves

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

“I don't suppose he has spoken to a girl for years. What a lesson this is to us, Jeeves, not to shut ourselves up in country houses and stare into glass tanks. You can't be the dominant male if you do that sort of thing. In this life, you can choose between two courses. You can either shut yourself up in a country house and stare into tanks, or

“You have such a great heart, such a fine soul. You are so generous, so unselfish, so chivalrous. I have always felt that about you—that you are one of the few really chivalrous men I have ever met.”

“I put the same construction on the thing. But why, Jeeves? Dash it all, she's just had nearly two months of me.”
“Yes, sir.”
“And many people consider the medium dose for an adult two days.”

“Oh, Gussie's coming, is he? Well, give him my love.”
“Very good, sir.”
“Yes, sir.”
“And a whisky and soda, and so forth.”

She was a pretty enough girl in a droopy, blonde, saucer-eyed way, but not the sort of breath-taker that takes the breath.

You will agree with me that he is not everybody's money.”
“There may be something in what you say, sir.”
“Cleopatra wouldn't have liked him.”

Caesar hav­ing one in his tent the day he over­came the Ner­vii.

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