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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?
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Expression is the mystery of beauty.
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A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
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Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
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The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.
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A woman too often reasons from her heart hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.
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Genius has no brother.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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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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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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To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
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Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.
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