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I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
Jerome K. Jerome
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Jerome K. Jerome
Age: 67 †
Born: 1859
Born: August 25
Died: 1927
Died: June 16
Actor
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
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Walsall
West Midlands
Jerome Klapka Jerome
Jerome Klapta Jerome
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Knee
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Housemaid
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Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
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I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
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