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February 14, 2020

February 14, 1975

P. G. Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 to February 14, 1975) lived a long life, the latter part in America. That the land of equality should host and love, the author of spoofs of traditional British values is not so puzzling when you recall that the era in question had already disappeared in Britain.

This picture we found at a site devoted to Wodehouse.
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And there also this Wodehouse quote: 

The struggle between Prater’s cat and Prater’s cat’s conscience was short, and ended in the hollowest of victories for the former. The conscience really had no sort of chance from the beginning.

And this citation: "The Tabby Terror" (1902) published in Tales of St Austin’s (1903).
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