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

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

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  2. He knew too well the sting of loneliness and how over time it stole you away, piece by piece, until a mere shell remained. – Katherine McIntyre
  3. I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish. – Jerome K Jerome
  4. 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. – Jerome K Jerome
  5. What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over – Jerome K Jerome
  6. There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet – except in dreams. – Jerome K Jerome
  7. The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder. – Jerome K Jerome
  8. I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination – Jerome K Jerome
  9. I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. – Jerome K Jerome
  10. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee. – Jerome K Jerome
  11. Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense–what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. – Dag Hammarskjld
  12. All POOR wish to become RICH,BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR. – shaikh mustafa
  13. A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
  14. Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. – Robert Louis Stevenson
  15. The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together. – Vera Nazarian
  16. Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you. – Ankur Basu Roy
  17. We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  18. What do you call a rifle with three barrels?A trifle. – Joseph Rosenbloom
  19. If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  20. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo Buonarroti
  21. One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence. – MH Rakib
  22. Towards the end of the season it is not bad to have the body. To have experienced joy as the mere lifting of hunger is not to have known it less. – Jorie Graham
  23. Time doesn’t heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them. – Shannon L Alder
  24. If I be waspish, best beware my sting. – William Shakespeare
  25. I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well. – Pat Conroy
  26. You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay ’emBut you won’t take the sting out these words before I say ’em – Eminem
  27. Together we can take this world, and all those whose knees have never felt the sting of the earth will bow to us – Isabella Rogge
  28. Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out. – Elias Canetti
  29. A bee, though small, can still sting you; an elephant, though calm, can still trample you; a lion, though full, can still devour you. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  30. Honey does not lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  31. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. – William Arthur Ward
  32. Don’t lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time. – Richelle E Goodrich
  33. Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. – William Carlos Williams
  34. Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything. – Suzy Kassem
  35. I don’t drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one sid – Sting
  36. Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don’t often see a scientist do: he shivered. – Bill Bryson
  37. Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c – Sting
  38. I only come here seeking knowledge – Sting Police
  39. Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain’t nothin’ can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can. – Ellery Adams
  40. Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught. – Frances Hardinge

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