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• I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Life, Home, House

  They and I (1909) ch. 11

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• We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Blow, Men, Diversity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.50, Jerome K. Jerome

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• We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Drinking, Food, Health

  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Eating and Drinking"

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• If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.100, Jerome K. Jerome

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Fashion, Dresses, Taste

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.107, Diderot Publishing

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• If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Littles, Foolish, Enough

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.51, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Humorous, Views, Lunch

  "They and I".

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• Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Angel, May, Way

  "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow". Book by Jerome K. Jerome, 1886.

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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

  Business, People, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.165, Diderot Publishing

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• Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  One Direction, Balance, Gains

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.116, Jerome K. Jerome

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• There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Life Is, Interest

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.75, Jerome K. Jerome

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• That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.624, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Nature, Creating, Impossible

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Thinking

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.43, Diderot Publishing

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Life, Character, Literature

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Four

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.221, Diderot Publishing

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• Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Life, Wise, Sometimes

  Jerome K. Jerome, Martin Green (2008). “The Other Jerome K. Jerome”, History PressLtd

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• A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Moving, Boys, Muscles

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Weather, Knowing, Want

  Jerome K. Jerome (2017). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Measles, Teenage Love

  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Being in Love"

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• Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Ambition, Vanity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.44, Jerome K. Jerome

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• There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Clouds, Cycling, Land

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.72, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Husband, Father, Health

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.32, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• (Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sweet, Night, Wind

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• It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sleep, Men, Priceless

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.70, Diderot Publishing

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