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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold the next day it is as healthy as ever.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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