I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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Jerome K. Jerome quotes & passages
4 passages by Jerome K. Jerome, from Three Men in a Boat and The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Jerome K. Jerome died in 1927, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
About Jerome K. Jerome
English writer and humorist (1859–1927), best known for Three Men in a Boat (1889).
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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.
I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do.
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