About Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men...
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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