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"17 Jerome K. Jerome Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 2 May 1859. Died: 14 June 1927 | Writer | Humorist |

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

Policy Truth Good Liar
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Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.

Life Down Oven Baked
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Nature was beautiful, even in her tears

Nature Beautiful Tears
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There is no pathos in real misery, no luxury in real grief.

Real Misery Luxury Grief
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We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can’t do without.

We Think Things Without
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A boy's love comes from a full heart; a man's is more often the result of a full stomach.

Love Heart Man's Result
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It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want

Rule World Person Want
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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Idleness Kisses Sweet Stolen
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But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

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

Pleasant People Stupid Love
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Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

Life Game Victory Skill
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What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

What Eyes Stomach Upset
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Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Poor Trifle Known Sting
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Speak truth, and right will take care of itself.

Speak Truth Right Care
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Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug

Play Game Life Winnings
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It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies.

Petty Details Results Existence
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Affection will burn cheerily when the white flame of love is flickered out. Affection is a fire that can be fed from day to day and be piled up ever higher as the wintry years draw nigh.

Affection Burn Flame Love
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Jerome K. Jerome Quotes & Sayings