Three Men in a Boat

We didn’t take beer or wine.  They are a mistake up the river.  They make you feel sleepy and heavy.  A glass in the evening when you are doing a mouch round the town and looking at the girls is all right enough; but don’t drink when the sun is blazing down on your head, and you’ve got hard work to do.

the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.  It seems to me so shocking to see the precious

the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.  It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man’s life—the priceless moments that will never come back to him again—being wasted in mere brutish sleep.

Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want.