Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

• Pain
• Virtue
• Weakness
• Vanity
• Calculates

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  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Pain
  • Virtue
  • Weakness