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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Athletic Ever Mastered Only Sport

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

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Gardens Grows Happiness Our Own Picked Strangers

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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.

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Fortunes Hang Like Long Made No Time Shirts Ten Time Together

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The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Aim Heart Hit Surest Take Way Woman

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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.

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Benevolent Duck He Held His Man Merciful Mistaken Over Passion Rain Shower Umbrella Would

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

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Glass Judged Like Marriage Properly Second Until Wine

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

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Heart Knees Religion

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

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Best Between England France Know Sea Thing

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

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: Late Life Like Love Measles Worse

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

~Douglas William Jerrold

Topics: She Truth Used Wait World

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: January 3rd, 1803

Died: June 8th, 1857

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