Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Remember
  • Ambition
  • Error