"Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and……" — Jerome K. Jerome
"Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards."
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108 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome
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