Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", as well as the well-known opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"...
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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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Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
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There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise
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In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As - fail
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.