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Douglas William Jerrold Inspirational Quotes (46)

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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
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The sharp employ the sharp.
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
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Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
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There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
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Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
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Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
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Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true but there is the slime.
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
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