I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Topic

Work Procrastination Finishing a task

Author

Jerome K. Jerome

Source

Three Men in a Boat

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 15.

Current Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 15.

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Another quote about Work

I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.

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Source
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Language
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Time
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Conrad, Joseph. "Heart of Darkness." Blackwood's Magazine. London and Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, Feb. 1899 - Apr. 1899.

Current Citation

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The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth hurts Truth Willful ignorance Freedom

Author

Herbert Agar
Source
A Time for Greatness
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Agar, Herbert. A Time for Greatness. Little, Brown and Company, 1942.