Mortimer Jerome Adler

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    When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
    —John Mortimer (b. 1923)

    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.
    Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)

    What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
    —Polly Adler (1900–1962)