“It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.”

—  P.G. Wodehouse

Source: The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

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English author 1881–1975

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