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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.
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Expression is the mystery of beauty.
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You speak As one who fed on poetry.
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Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
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Shame is like the weaver's thread if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.
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Nothing ages like laziness.
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But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.
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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
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There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.
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Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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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 secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
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Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.
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Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.
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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
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Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
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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.
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