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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

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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West Midlands
Jerome Klapka Jerome
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The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.
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We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
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Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
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Love is like the measles we all have to go through it.
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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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All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
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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 like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.
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In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who have never been undutiful to their parents who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows. Fancy giving up all that for five shillings a year! It is not worth it!
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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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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
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If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
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There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.
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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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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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There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.
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