Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold

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  He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

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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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  Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

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  Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

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  He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.

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  In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

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  Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

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  Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

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  Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

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  Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

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  Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

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  Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

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  The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

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  The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

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  The sharp employ the sharp.