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Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!”

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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“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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“Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.”

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“Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.”

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“The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.”

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