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| Jerome K. Jerome
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. 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. 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. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. a poor man is despised the whole world over. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. 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. Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer. One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. That's Harris all over – so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people. Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart. 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. We drink one another's health and ruin our own. What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. |
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