unearths some literary gems.
From The Idler, vol. 4 (1894):
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No man can tell the truth in the presence of mountains 14,000 feet high.
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Fortune is said to knock at every man's door at least once in a lifetime. It proves a runaway knock in many cases.
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[A few notes re. some of the attachments]
1. The Jerome K. Jerome snippets are from a piece in which he converses with an anthropomorphized copy of the first book he published, many years before. (JKJ has told us that the cover design included an overly large "K," which you can see as the book's "nose" in the illustration.)
2. The "Neptune" and "David Copperfield" items are included simply because I thought they might appeal as out-of-context illustrations/captions.
3. The "One Author" item is from an illustrated article about trick photography.
