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Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
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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Jerome Klapka Jerome
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Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by.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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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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We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.
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A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
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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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