Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.
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I've always tried to be perfect. And I need to stop trying to be perfect and worry about becoming better.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
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There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.
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I'm one of those guys like whatever the situation is, as long as people are cool and everybody is trying to be funny, I have a good time.
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Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.
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If you don't read news.groups, the net appears to be a rather tranquil place.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
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Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
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Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
