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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.”

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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 most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.”

Men Mind Cities Destiny Genius Civilization Scene Independence Golden Chains Proportion Links Delicate Artificial Thrones Our Destiny Stimulants

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.”

Ifs Men Should Care Dark Opinion Conscience Meetings Ghost Sole Phantoms Tribunals

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.”

Men Firsts Rate

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.”

Men Eye Bird Breaths Bones Debt Graves Poison Crush Serpent

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.”

Ifs Believe Soul Running Risk Honor Terrible Debt Shoulders Your Soul Load Your Honor

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.”

Beautiful Interest Race Moral Democracy Path Effects Welfare Divided

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.”

Education University University Education

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.”

Men Should Shows Would Be Emotion He Man Sorrow Battle Raised Superiors Funeral Ridicule Puppets Apathetic Puppet Shows

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.”

Men Mind Doe Seems Running Secret Race Genius Ambition Stones Horse Nervous Thrown Competitors Brutes Emulate Emulation Racers Thoroughbreds

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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