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All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

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
Men
Terribly
Vanity
Vain
Everybody
Possible
Women

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