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Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859 - June 14, 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat

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I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

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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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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

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Everybody have a problem in their life but, not everybody have the courage to face it

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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

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I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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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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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

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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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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

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It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

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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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We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

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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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