Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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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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It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
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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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We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
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If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
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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 coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
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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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Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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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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The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
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If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
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Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
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A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
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Humor is the harmony of the heart.
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Malice blunts the point of wit.
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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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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
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There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
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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.