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Douglas William Jerrold
Age: 54 †
Born: 1803
Born: January 1
Died: 1857
Died: January 1
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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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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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I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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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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Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
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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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In this world truth can wait she is used to 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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Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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The sharp employ the sharp.
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Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
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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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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
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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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Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
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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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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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