Jeeves Quotes 

"What's the tree I read about somewhere that does you in if you sit under it?", to which Jeeves replies, "The upas tree, sir." Bertie rejoins, "She's a female upas tree. It's not safe to come near her."
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Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat.

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— 1923  The InimitableJeeves, ch.13.

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"The contingency is remote." (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)

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— Chapter 1, "The Overworld"

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