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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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle when you talk to the ignorant, brag when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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