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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton was a British novelist and playwright who lived during the 19th century. He is known for his works such as "The Last Days of Pompeii" and "Bulwer-Lytton's "The Haunted and the Haunters." Bulwer-Lytton's writing often featured elaborate plots and vivid descriptions. His influence on Victorian literature and his creation of memorable phrases, like "It was a dark and stormy night," have secured his place in literary history.
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"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."

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"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."

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"If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another."

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"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."

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"A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power."

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"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today."

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"What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone."

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"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."

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"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many."

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"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

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"O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility."

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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."

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"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset."

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"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword."

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"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."

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"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."

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"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth."

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"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."

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"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."

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"Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."

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"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own."

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"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

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"Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize."

Joy,
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"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it."

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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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"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."

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"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

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"When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching."

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"What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose."

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"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

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"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart."

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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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"Art and science have their meeting point in method."

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"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."

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"The easiest person to deceive is one's self."

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"I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die."

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"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

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"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."

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"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."

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"There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it."

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"The pen is mightier than the sword."

Pen,
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"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."

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"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."

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"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

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"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue."

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"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."

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