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Douglas William Jerrold Inspirational Quotes (46)

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It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
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Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
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Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
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Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
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What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
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Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
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Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
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A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.
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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
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I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
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In this world truth can wait she is used to it.
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A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
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Self-defense is the clearest of all laws and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
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A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
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