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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If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.
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Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
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The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
