Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

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• Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
• 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…
• Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
• In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
• The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
• Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
• After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
• He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
• A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
• We love peace, but not peace at any price.
• Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
• Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
• A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
• A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
• He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
• I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
• As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
• The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
• A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
• Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

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