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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A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
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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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If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
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We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
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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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Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
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Malice blunts the point of wit.
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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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The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
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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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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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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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Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
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Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.
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Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
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Humor is the harmony of the heart.
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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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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
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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.