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• The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Reflection, Men, Glasses

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.540, Delphi Classics

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• If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there
  you jolly well are, aren't you?

  Lord Buckley

  Wells, Ifs

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• Sing hey! Sing hey!
  For Christmas Day;
  Twine mistletoe and holly.
  For a friendship glows
  In winter snows,
  And so let's all be jolly!
  At Christmas play and make good cheer,
  For Christmas comes but once a year

  Thomas Tusser

  Cheer, Merry Christmas, Winter

  Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

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• Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.

  Francis Beaumont

  Noses, Red, Ginger

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• What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

  Belle Boyd

  Military, Surveillance

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.382

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• Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Christmas, Baby, Believe

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• Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.

  Jack Nelson

  Christmas, Children, Eye

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• We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

  Ngaio Marsh

  Jobs, Inspiration, Writing

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• Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

  A. P. Herbert

  Eye, Night, Light

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• Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

  Mindy Kaling

  People, Way, Skinny

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.193, Crown/Archetype

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• They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Issues, Different, Lifestyle

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• Christmas Pie Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bakemeats choke, And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury it in a Christmas pie, And ever more be merry.

  George Wither

  Lying, Block, Men

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• I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Pride, Grandmother

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• A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Book, Fire, Apples

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• Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold

  John Wilson

  Book, Gold, Looks

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• We're deep into the holiday gift-giving season, as you can tell from the fact that everywhere you look, you see jolly old St. Nick urging you to purchase things, to the point where you want to slug him right in his bowl full of jelly.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Holiday, Giving

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• We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

  Stuart Pearce

  Jobs, Boys, Results

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• You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

  Anne Tyler

  Mother, Thinking, Torn Apart

  Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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• Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Blood, Rivers

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• Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

  Jasper Fforde

  Comedy, Genre, Dangerous

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• Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Real, Nice

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.66, Gideon House Books

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• There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Song, Night, Rivers

  Love in aVillage act 1, sc. 2 (1762)

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• …maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith

  Zadie Smith

  Self, Fake, Friendly

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• In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.

  Princess Margaret

  Rift, My Sister, Our Family

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• After her came jolly June, arrayed
  All in green leaves, as he a player were;
  Yet in his time he wrought as well as played,
  That by his plough-irons mote right well appear.
  Upon a crab he rode, that did him bear,
  With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace,
  And backward rode, as bargemen wont to fare,
  Bending their force contrary to their face;
  Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Player, June

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