The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
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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.Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fierce
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The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Patience is not passive on the contrary, it is active it is concentrated strength
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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