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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Expression is the mystery of beauty.
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It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship pass on.
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Prudence, patience, labor, valor these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
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At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.
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If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.
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Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.
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Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
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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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The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
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Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
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Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
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Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
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Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!
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They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.
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There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
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It is a glorious fever, desire to know.
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Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
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To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
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