“The modern young man,' said Aunt Dahlia, 'is a congenital idiot and wants a nurse to lead him by the hand and some strong attendant to kick him regularly at intervals of a quarter of an hour.”

— P.G. Wodehouse, book Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)

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English author 1881–1975

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