"I had walked into that reading-room a happy,……" — Jerome K. Jerome
"I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck."
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108 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome has 108 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they…
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Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we…
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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…
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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…
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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state,…
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their…
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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…
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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…
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The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked…
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