Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", as well as the well-known opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"...
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I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy
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Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
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Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
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There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise
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Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it
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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies
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Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.