Julia Edelweiss

“George said:
"You know we are on the wrong track altogether. We must not think of things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without." (Chapter III)”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“Being out in a boat on the river Lea, especially on Saturday afternoons, soon makes you smart at handling a craft, and spry at escaping being run down by roughs or swamped by barges;
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But it does not give you style. It was not till I came to the Thames that I got style. My style of rowing is much admired now. People say it is so quaint.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“I daresay that was only river water, if we had known. But we did not know, so it was alright. What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over. (Chapter XII)”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“Felix extracted entertainment from all things, and all his faculties - his imagination, his intelligence, his affections, his senses - had a hand in the game. (Chapter 4)”
― Henry James, The Europeans