Mortimer Jerome Adler

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    The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
    —John Mortimer (b. 1923)

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