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“The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.”

Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

British novelist known for his historical novels and Gothic tales, famous for works such as 'Peveril of the Peak' and 'Evelyn Hope'. more

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“It is often the easiest move that completes the game.”

Moving Games Finishing

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“Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.”

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“Genius has no brother.”

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“Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.”

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“The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.”

Men Way Years Made Ends Hours Study One Thing He Man Habit One Hour

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“In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.”

Body Brain Half Health Disease These Days Neglect Overwork

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“Bright and illustrious illusions!”

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.”

Eye Certain Imagination Mistake Objects Judgment Observation Compare Acquire Unconscious Comparison Customs Precision Arriving Correcting Involuntary

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.”

Generations Affection Immortality Immortal

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“I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.”

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