"The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Exercise
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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."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Fortune
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"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Happiness
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"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Heart
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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."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Kindness
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"Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Love
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"Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Luck
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"Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Marriage
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Nations
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"There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Peace
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"Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Peace
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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."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Philanthropists
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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."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Pleasure
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"Religion is in the heart, not in the knees."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Prayer
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"Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Treason
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Truth
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"The sharp employ the sharp."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Work
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