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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The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.
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This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.
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Every time I come to Auburn it's nothing but love.
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A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.
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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.
