“What between tipping the man who had brought us home, and paying for the broken sculls, and for having been out four hours and a half, it cost us a pretty considerable number of weeks’ pocket-money, that sail. But we learned experience, and they say that is always cheap at any price.”

—  Jerome K. Jerome , book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 15.

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