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“Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.”

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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“He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.”

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“Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.”

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“What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom--from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order?”

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