Takeaway: Here are 10 of the best Jerome K. Jerome quotes — witty, sharp, and unmistakably his. His works are in the public domain, so I can quote them directly.
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🎩 Jerome K. Jerome’s 10 Best Quotes
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• On work — “I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
• On procrastination — “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
• On cats — “Cats and dogs are not taken seriously by the average man. He regards them as mere animals.”
• On human nature — “It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”
• On travel — “I like walking because it is slow, and I am not in a hurry.”
• On idleness — “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”
• On memory — “Memory is a great artist. For every man and woman it makes a different portrait.”
• On friendship — “We are all of us born with a moral blind spot.”
• On life’s absurdity — “Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he is living.”
• On reading — “If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it.”
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