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| It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| 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 | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| 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 | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| 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. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |  |
| Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are. | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat |  |