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The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth
and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Jerrold's Wit--The Husbandman's Life
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she
laughs with a harvest.
Topic: Agriculture
Source: A Land of Plenty
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He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
[Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.]
Topic: Agriculture
Source: A Land of Plenty
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than
in any other gown in the world.
Topic: Apparel
Source: A Wedding-Gown--Jerrold's Wit
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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.
Topic: Fortune
Source: None
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A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may
be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but,
be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the
hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience,
reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that
beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their
hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of
their hats'? The cock's all."
Topic: Hatters
Source: The Romance of a Keyhole (ch. III)
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As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought
in in malice.
Topic: Liquor
Source: Jerrold's Wit--Shakespeare Grog
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Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to
meet it.
Topic: Luck
Source: Jerrold's Wit--Meeting Trouble Half-Way
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A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
Topic: Medicine
Source: The Catspaw (act I, sc. I)
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The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I
were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I
could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Topic: Occupations
Source: Jerrold's Wit--Ugly Trades
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Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
Topic: Opinion
Source: Man Made of Money, in the "Wit and Opinions of Jerrold", p. 28
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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.
Topic: Philanthropy
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
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A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman.
Eternal love and instant payment!
Topic: Post
Source: Specimen's of Jerrold's Wit--The Postman's Budget
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A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a
beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring
sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of
man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
Topic: Post
Source: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--The Postman's Budget
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others.
Topic: Reputation
Source: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--Reputations
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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.
Topic: Reputation
Source: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--Reputations
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If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as
creeps.
Topic: Slander
Source: Specimen's of Jerrold's Wit--Slander
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Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the
steps.
Topic: Talk
Source: A Matter-of-Fact Man
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Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.
Topic: Temptation
Source: The Catspaw
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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Topic: Treason
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Voting
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Topic: Voting
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
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I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw
away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on
account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
Topic: Voting
Source: Douglas Jerrold's Wit
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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately
it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
Topic: Wit
Source: Specimens of Jerrold's Wit--Wit
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