Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
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The character that needs law to mend it, is hardly worth the tinkering.
[Character]
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The life of the husbandman, - a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
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The sharp employ the sharp.
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The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. - This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.
[Intelligence]
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The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
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The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
[Occupation]
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There is a sanctity in suffering when meekly born. Our 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 rod, it changes to a snake.
[Trials]
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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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We love peace, but not peace at any price. - There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive of his body. - Chains are worse than bayonets.
[Peace]
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Wedlock's like wine, not properly judged of till the second glass.
[Marriage]
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What would women do if they could not cry? - What poor, defenceless creatures they would be.
[Tears]
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