“I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.”

— P.G. Wodehouse , book Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)

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