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Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Long, Long Day

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The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

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Girl, Heart, Doors

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If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

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Heart, Credit, Letters

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 250-52, What Will He Do With It? (1858), Book II. Title of Ch, XI., 1922.

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The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

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Beauty, Men, Should

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Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

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Risk, Revolution, Made

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Law dies, books never.

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Book, Law, Dies

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The classic literature is always modern.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Literature, Classic, Modern

"Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1862.

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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

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Looks, Debt, Youth

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What's money without happiness?

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Money

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At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

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Tongue, Ants, Prey

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There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

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Feelings, Tongue, Lovers

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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

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Proportion, Valuable

"Caxtoniana". Essay XIV, 1863.

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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

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Country, Poverty, Crime

England and the English (1833)

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Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

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Heaven, One Day, Would Be

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To live
On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
This is to be a trickster; and to filch
Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
Plain folks call "Theft.

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Art, Mean, Men

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It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

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Passion, Mean, Political

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It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

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Doors, Brain, Vices

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Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine,
Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

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Life, Love Is, Laughing

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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

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Fake Friends, Pressure, Pleasure

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People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

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Vanity, People, Vain

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You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

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Poetry, Speak, Feds

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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

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Enlargement, Invention, Deviation

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Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

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Soul, Principles, Should

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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

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Writing, Poetry, Temples

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When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

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Anger, Sound, Calm

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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: January 18, 1873
Occupation: Novelist
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