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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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Doulgas Jerrold
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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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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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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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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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