Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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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.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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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.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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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.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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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.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Art and science have their meeting point in method.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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