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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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.
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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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I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.
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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
