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I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Jerome K. Jerome
Age: 67 †
Born: 1859
Born: August 25
Died: 1927
Died: June 16
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Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.
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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
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I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
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A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
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Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a T. I don't know what a T is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.
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All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
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I don't know why it should be, I am sure but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.
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It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
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It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner it becomes a mere matter of habit.
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Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
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We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
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But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.
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Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.
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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
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Love is like the measles we all have to go through it.
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They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
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Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing.
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Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.
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