Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Evil
  • Army
  • Reform