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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

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  Revenge, Men, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.78, Jerome K. Jerome

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• We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

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  Men, Weather

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Jerome K. Jerome

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• What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

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  Funny, Book, Reading

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

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  Mother, Baby, Blood

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

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  Funny, Beauty, Girl

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.551, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.

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  Boys, Passing Away, Might

  Jerome K. Jerome (2013). “Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome”, p.10, e-artnow

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• 1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.

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  Morning, Beer, Night

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.5, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.

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  Country, Thinking, Rely Upon

  Jerome K. Jerome (2017). “Clocks: From "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"”, p.3, The Floating Press

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• Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

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  Poor, Trifles, Mere

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

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• It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

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  Men, Sea, Land

  Jerome K. Jerome “Annotated Three Men in a Boat with English Grammar Exercises: by Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

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  Love, Pain, Memories

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.26, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

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  Voice, People, Silence

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Diary of a Pilgrimage”, p.41, Read Books Ltd

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• Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

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  People, Might, Would Be

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• That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I have often thought about the matter since, but I have never succeeded in arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world. The boat may possibly have come to the conclusion, judging from a cursory view of our behaviour, that we had come out for a morning's suicide, and had thereupon determined to disappoint us. That is the only suggestion I can offer.

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  Suicide, Morning, Views

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season.

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  Funny, Hands, Rivers

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.263, Diderot Publishing

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• Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

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  Dream, Sound, Half

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.34, Oxford University Press

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• Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

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  Rivers, Doubt, Boards

  Jerome K. Jerome (2010). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.85, Bibliolis Books

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• After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

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  Stars, Eye, Wings

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.165, Diderot Publishing

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• I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

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  Reading, Men, Healthy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.11, Diderot Publishing

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• I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.

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  Lying, Feet, October

  Jerome K. Jerome (1912). “John Ingerfield and Other Stories”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

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  Men, Thinking, Sausage

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.195, BookRix

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• I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

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  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.38, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

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  Funny, Humorous, School

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.

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  Book, Reading, Tired

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.594, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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