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English 19th Century Quotes

Let the dead bury the dead. -early 19th



If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. -mid 19th



There is no royal road to learning. -early 19th



Talk is cheap. -mid 19th



Brave men lived before Agamemnon. -early 19th



Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. -mid 19th; early 17th century in German



An army marches on it's stomach. -mid 19th - attributed to Frederick the Great and/or Napoleon



Never marry for money, but marry where money is. -late 19th



Home is where the heart is. -late 19th



If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands. -mid 19th



The busiest men have the most leisure. -late 19th



Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session. -early 19th



The only good Indian is a dead Indian. -mid 19th



Easy does it. -mid 19th



No cure, no pay. expression used on Lloyd's of London's Standard Form of Salvage Agreement -late 19th