Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
JEROME K. JEROMEWhat I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
More Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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A good woman’s arms round a man’s neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
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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. It is my energetic nature. I can’t help it.
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
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Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
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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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The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.
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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.
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Swearing relieves the feelings – that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn’t answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
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They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
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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.
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What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
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