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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
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Walsall
West Midlands
Jerome Klapka Jerome
Jerome Klapta Jerome
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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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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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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
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It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
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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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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.
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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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Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
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The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
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I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
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Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
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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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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
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A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
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We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.
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