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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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• 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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• I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.293, Diderot Publishing

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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.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  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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• We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cherish, Love Again

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

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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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• 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.

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  Clouds, Cycling, Land

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

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• A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.191, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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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• 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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• Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.92, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cat, Iron, Pussy

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

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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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• Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Work, Sleep, Failing

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

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• Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

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  Horse, Men, Two

  Jerome K. Jerome (2018). “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (English French Edition illustrated): Trois Hommes dans un bateau(Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.62, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who "have never been undutiful to their parents; who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows." Fancy giving up all that for five shillings a year! It is not worth it!

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Girl, Easter, Giving Up

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.240, Diderot Publishing

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• It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. 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

  Mind, Doe, Looks

  Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

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• Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.

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  Intelligent, Play, Long

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

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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.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Passion, Thinking, Tea

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

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• If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “Three Men on the Bummel”, p.62, Jerome K. Jerome

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• The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Clever, Hate, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mistake, Lying, Air

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

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• Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Jerome K. Jerome “Dreams”, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Dream, Men, Sea

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.212, Diderot Publishing

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