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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

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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London
England
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Barabbas
Doulgas Jerrold
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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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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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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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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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Self-defense is the clearest of all laws and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
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Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
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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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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
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Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
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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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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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