Jerome K. Jerome quote about boat from Three Men in a Boat - In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything.
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In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything.
 Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1889). copy citation

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Author Jerome K. Jerome
Source Three Men in a Boat
Topic boat crew
Date 1889
Language English
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“He thinks it is only my over-scrupulous nature that makes me fear I am having more than my due; and that, as a matter of fact, I don't have half as much as I ought. But I expect he only says this to comfort me.
In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything. Harris's notion was, that it was he alone who had been working, and that both George and I had been imposing upon him. George, on the other hand, ridiculed the idea of Harris's having done anything more than eat and sleep, and had a cast-iron opinion that it was he—George himself—who had done all the labour worth speaking of.” source

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