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• They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Dog, Silly

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.68, 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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• I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Book, Writing, Age

  Jerome K. Jerome (2010). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.6, Giunti Editore

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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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• 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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• Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Clever, Home

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Effort, Saint

  Jerome K. Jerome (2017). “Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green”, p.115, The Floating Press

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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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• Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Winning, Games, Play

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

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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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• 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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• There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fun, Occupation

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Thinking, Ideas, Judgement

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.158, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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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• 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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• Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Years, Giving, Fifty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.131, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Idling has always been my strong point.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Strong

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

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Medicine, Suffering, Patents

  Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 1

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