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The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
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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Eat good dinners and drink good wine read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love but do not pore over influenza statistics.
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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 always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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Life is a thing to be lived, not spent to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
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Love is woman's business,and in business we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.
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Love is like the measles we all have to go through it.
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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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I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
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