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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.”

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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“The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing”

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“The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth”

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“We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.”

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“The food of hope is meditative action.”

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“When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.”

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“Clean up your own mess.”

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“The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.”

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“Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.”

Firsts Art Shows Lasts Process Beauty Grace Color Sight Method Logical Curves Formation Symmetrical

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“I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.”

Men Children Morning Youth He Man Every Morning Virgins Contagious Gladness Freshness Happy Children

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“Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.”

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