if my name was on a serious work like this it would never get fair treatment. They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed. - Jerome K. Jerome

"Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good."

"In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who "have never been undutiful to their parents; who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows." Fancy giving up all that for five shillings a year! It is not worth it!"

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.