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It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
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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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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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
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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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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 blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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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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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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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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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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A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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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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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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