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Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

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
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Writer
Walsall
West Midlands
Jerome Klapka Jerome
Jerome Klapta Jerome
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Oil

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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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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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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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It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
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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.
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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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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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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
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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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