None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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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.Douglas Jerrold
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold
I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Douglas Jerrold
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual.
Douglas Jerrold
Readers are of two sorts one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him.
Douglas Jerrold
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
Douglas Jerrold
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