The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in … - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.

Construe, Failure, Language, Vices, World

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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

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To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.

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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth. " And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Truth, Believe, Passion, World, Finely

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Fame, Hell, Known, Men, Taste, Want

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

Book, Exercise, Reading, Sauntering

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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

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The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

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