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, from Three Men in a Boat (1889)
I have a dozen pipes, so I guess I'm overdoing. I do love the contented simplicity inherent in this quote; an American disease is wanting far too much.
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