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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Douglas William Jerrold
Age: 54 †
Born: 1803
Born: January 1
Died: 1857
Died: January 1
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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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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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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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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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The sharp employ the sharp.
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
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