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.
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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.
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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
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.
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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
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.
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Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome