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Women strangely hug the knife that stabs them.

— Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat (1889)

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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.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

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

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

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

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.

There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.

Three Men on the Bummel (1900)

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