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Jerome K. Jerome has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each…
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Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not,…
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Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
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Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in…
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What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.
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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…
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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…
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A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious…
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
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I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late…
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The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a…
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Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their…
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Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in…
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection…
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Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole…
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave…
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Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift…
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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow!…
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I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at…
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