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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. ... A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898. The essays had previously appeared in Home Chimes, the same magazine that later serialised Jerome's Three Men in a Boat. (Wikipedia.org) CONTENTS On the Art of Making Up One's Mind On the Disadvantage of Not Getting What One Wants On the Exceptional Merit attaching to the Things We Meant To Do On the Preparation and Employment of Love Philtres On the Delights and Benefits of Slavery On the Care and Management of Women On the Minding of Other People's Business On the Time Wasted in Looking Before One Leaps On the Nobility of Ourselves On the Motherliness of Man On the Inadvisability of Following Advice On the Playing of Marches at the Funerals Of Marionettes

-Now, which would you advise, dear? You see, with the red I shan't be able to wear my magenta hat.- -Well then, why not have the grey?- -Yes-yes, I think the grey will be MORE useful.- -It's a good material.- -Yes, and it's a PRETTY grey.

the second thoughts of an idle fellow From Jerome K Jerome

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Excerpt from Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow red is that it is so warm-looking. Red makes you feel warm even when you're not warm. You know what I mean, dear." "Well, then, why not have the red? It suits you - red." "No; do you really think so?" "Well, when you've got a colour, I mean, of course." "Yes, that is the drawback to red. No, I think, on the whole, the grey is safer" "Then you will take the grey, madam?" "Yes, I think I'd better; don't you, dear?" "I like it myself very much." "And it is good wearing stuff. I shall have it trimmed with - Oh! you haven't cut it off, have you?" "I was just about to, madam." "Well, don't for a moment. Just let me have another look at the red. You see, dear, it has just occurred to me - that chinchilla would look so well on the red." "So it would, dear." "And, you see, I've got the chinchilla." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author's second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist.It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.