Jerome K. Jerome

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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.”

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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“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 (1859-1927)

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“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.”

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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“Idling has always been my strong point.”

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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"The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be."

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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"A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon."

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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"The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently."

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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"The weather is like the government, always in the wrong."

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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"It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions."

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

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"People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained."

― Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)