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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Topic: Advice
Author: Jerome K Jerome
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
Topic: Babies
Author: Jerome K Jerome
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
Topic: Cats
Author: Jerome K Jerome
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.".
Topic: Youth
Author: Jerome K Jerome
Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
Topic: Eating
Author: Jerome K Jerome
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.
Topic: Fallibility
Author: Jerome K Jerome
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.
Topic: Home
Author: Jerome K Jerome
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Topic: Idleness
Author: Jerome K Jerome
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.
Author: Jerome K Jerome
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
Topic: Nations
Author: Jerome K Jerome
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.
Topic: Perspective
Author: Jerome K Jerome
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Topic: Sadness
Author: Jerome K Jerome
It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Topic: Truth
Author: Jerome K Jerome
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.
Topic: Work
Author: Jerome K Jerome
I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Topic: Work
Author: Jerome K Jerome
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