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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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England
Whitefeather
Barabbas
Doulgas Jerrold
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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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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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
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Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on 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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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
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The sharp employ the sharp.
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Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
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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 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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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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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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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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