I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do.
Jerome K. Jerome · Three Men in a Boat
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“I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I…”
- Author
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Work
- Three Men in a Boat
- Year
- 1889
- Chapter / part
- Chapter IV
- Length
- 33 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #308
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Jerome K. Jerome died in 1927, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1889. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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