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Jerome K. Jerome Quotes about Life

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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

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.

Jerome K. Jerome
Love, Inspirational, Life
Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

Jerome K. Jerome
Life, Fiction, Facts
Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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.

Jerome K. Jerome
Life, Home, House
They and I (1909) ch. 11

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

Jerome K. Jerome
Life, Character, Literature
Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Jerome K. Jerome
Life, Wise, Sometimes
Jerome K. Jerome, Martin Green (2008). “The Other Jerome K. Jerome”, History PressLtd

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