The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. … A second Idle Thoughts book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898. The essays had previously appeared in Home Chimes, the same magazine that later serialised Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat. (Wikipedia.org)

CONTENTS

On the Art of Making Up One’s Mind

On the Disadvantage of Not Getting What One Wants

On the Exceptional Merit attaching to the Things We Meant To Do

On the Preparation and Employment of Love Philtres

On the Delights and Benefits of Slavery

On the Care and Management of Women

On the Minding of Other People’s Business

On the Time Wasted in Looking Before One Leaps

On the Nobility of Ourselves

On the Motherliness of Man

On the Inadvisability of Following Advice

On the Playing of Marches at the Funerals Of Marionettes