“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.” — Jerome K. Jerome

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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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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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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.

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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. — Jerome K. Jerome

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