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Famous Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
“As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.”
“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.”
“I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.”
“Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!”
“There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.”
“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”
“Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter”
“If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.”
“A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.”
“But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.”
“Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.”
“We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.”
“Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.”
“The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.”