Throw the lumber over, man! 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 (1859-1927) English writer, humorist [Jerome Klapka Jerome]

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), ch. 3 (1889)
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