To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment
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Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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.
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
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And sweetened by all that is sweetest in life, Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten with strife
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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