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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.”

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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

“The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.”

People Persons Action Moving Loses Wife Habit Quiet Lows Calm Noise Manners Traits Accustomed Spoons Affront

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.”

Kindness Fine Manners Thoughtful Exquisite Benevolence Breeding

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“What a rare gift, by the by, is that of manners! how difficult to define, how much more difficult to impart! Better for a man to possess them than wealth, beauty, or talent; they will more than supply all.”

Men Difficult Wealth Talent Manners Impart

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.”

Knows Men World Character Use Turns Money He Man Evident

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“What's money without happiness?”

Money

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.”

Spiritual Political Politics Numbers Liberty Ought Safety Secure Combination Being The Best Political Freedom Continuance

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.”

Known Power Weapons Aspect Calm Command Calmness Formidable Courteous Orators Forbearance

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.”

Men Heart Hands Dark Poverty Candle Skeletons

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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