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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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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
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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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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
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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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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
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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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Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
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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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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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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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Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
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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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Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
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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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Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
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