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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.”

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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“Law dies, books never.”

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.”

Littles Book Views Known Four Window Village County Carriages Luxurious Welsh High Road Picturesque Small Villages

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“Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.”

Stills Book House Sports Space Broken Scene Spring London Pleasant Broads Solitary Here And There Pastime Early Spring

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.”

Men Character Form Father Judging Duty Forgiving Gentle Characteristics Avenging

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.”

Ifs World Trying Mind Character Pay Attention Judging Fame Areas Perfection Great Things Reputation Minutiae

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.”

Men Character Care Evil Duty Army Take Care Every Man Reform Merit Good And Evil Remedy Deficiency Valiant

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.”

Heart Girl Doors Charity Charitable

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.”

Children Eye Lasts Film Death Mother Fall Loses Arms Aspect Clay Bosoms Spectre

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.”

Death Graves Cells Tombs Mock Futility Monasteries

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!”

Death Parent Beloved

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton