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Jerome K. Jerome Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: May 2, 1859
  • Died: Jun 14, 1927

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat.

Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. being alone

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. work

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. government

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. nature

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

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. sympathy

We drink one another's health and spoil our own. health

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 views from William Butler Yeats

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Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 more quotes from Dave Barry

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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 more thoughts from Winston Churchill

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