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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", and the well-known and much-parodied opening line "It was a dark and stormy night".

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Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Dark, Heart, Man, Men, Poverty

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

Air, Castles, Cost, Glory, Vast

Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?

Debt, Debts, Julius, Lived, Success, Two

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

Lucky, Men, Moment, Namely, Needs, Public

We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

Hero, Humorous, Immortalized, Jonathan, Knights, Resemblance

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Country, Crime, Misfortune, Poverty

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

Alone, Grief, Men, Sadness, Teach

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Advantage, Conclusions, Esteems, Philosopher, Trifler, Trifles

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

Art, Bestows, Imitate, Men, Selections, Soul

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Drink, Eye, Melancholy, Stars, Sweet, Tell

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Bread, Country, Dog, Kindness

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Giveth, Happy, Men, Prosperity, Thou, Wealth

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

Make, Men, Rarely, Save, Style, Swagger

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

Agreeable, Dandies, Firsts, Men, Rate

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Earnest, Errors, Men, Thinking

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Clever, Eminent, Mean, Men, Part, Ten

He who has loved often. . . has loved never.

Loved

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

Laugh, Laughing, Life, Love, Love Is, Wilt

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Landmarks, Past, Writers, Writing

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

Add, Astronomer, Atoms, Catalogues, Stars

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