Jerome Klapka Jerome

grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them - the soft singing of the waters, the whisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind - should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not

-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are

He was exhibited for three weeks afterwards in the Town Hall, under a glass case

Montmorency, who had evinced great interest in the proceedings throughout, strolled away with an earnest and thoughtful air, reappearing, a few minutes afterwards, with a dead water- rat in his mouth, which he evidently wished to present as his contribution to

the dinner; whether in a sarcastic spirit, or with a genuine desire to assist, I cannot

you never try a new thing, how can you tell what it's like? It's men such as you that hamper the world's progress. Think of the man who first tried German sausage

shall have to throw out a wing soon

is so free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life

But we learned experience, and they say that is always cheap at any price

is the way of the world