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• Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

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  Funny, Sweet, Time

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.7, Jerome K. Jerome

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• A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

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  Bulls, Benefits, Institutions

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “Three Men on the Bummel”, p.193, Jerome K. Jerome

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

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  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

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  Mistake, Lying, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.

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  Want, Goods, Ifs

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.321, Oxford University Press

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• I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs.

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  Lying, Autumn, Night

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Silhouettes”, p.5, Read Books Ltd

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• Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

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  Fall, Men, Vision

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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• The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

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  Wine, Men, Sight

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.159, OUP Oxford

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• Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

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  Oil, Too Much, Cheese

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.53, Diderot Publishing

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• Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

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  Funny, Humorous, Aunt

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.67, Jerome K. Jerome

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• "Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

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  Funny, Heaven, Journalism

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.118, The Floating Press

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• Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

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  Love, Funny, Fire

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.15, Jerome K. Jerome

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• All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

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  Men, Vanity, Vain

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Jerome K. Jerome (Illustrated)”, p.2421, Delphi Classics

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• It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

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  Baby, Attention, Firsts

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.94, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

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  Love Is, Weakness, Natural

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

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• When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

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  Adversity, Men, Wind

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog)”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

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  Love, Funny, Done

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.118, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

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  Weather, House, Way

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.45, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

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  Strong, Men, Average

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.120, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

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  Sad, Fun, Humorous

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “My Life and Times”, p.14, Read Books Ltd

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• Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.

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  Cake, Rivers, Credit

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.7, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

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  Quality, Faults, Failing

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.602, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

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  Twenties, Letters, Knees

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.9, Diderot Publishing

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• 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.

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  Watches, Care, Morality

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.166, Diderot Publishing

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• It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

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  Men, World, Poverty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.32, Jerome K. Jerome

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