“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Writers are the main landmarks of the past.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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