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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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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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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
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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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Self-defense is the clearest of all laws and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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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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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
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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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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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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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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
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