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Famous Quotes by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

 

Famous quotes by the English novelist and dramatist, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (Baron Lytton). He was born in 1803 and died in 1873.

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Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

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Just like my luck! If I had been bred a hatter, little boys would have come into the world without heads.

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It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

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There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

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Life would be tolerably agreeable if it were not for its amusements.

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

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A man who has ancestors is like a representative of the past.

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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.

You can find more quotations like this one in the Mary Wilson Little category.

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