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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.

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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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
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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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He is very imprudent, a dog he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.
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We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.
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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
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Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing.
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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
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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.
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It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner it becomes a mere matter of habit.
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All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
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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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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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The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
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What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
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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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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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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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There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.
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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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