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> [“Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/can-any-man-doubt-whether-it-is-better-to-be-a-great-statesman-or-a/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

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## More by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

> [“No path between the stranger’s home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/no-path-between-the-stranger-s-home-and-ours-should-be-left-unclosed/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

> [“The stranger drew the curtains round the bed, took up the light, and inspected the apartment. The walls of both rooms were hung with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/the-stranger-drew-the-curtains-round-the-bed-took-up-the-light-and/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

> [“It was a something found that had long been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the heart than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/it-was-a-something-found-that-had-long-been-sought-for-by-a-thousand/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

> [“But there is one privilege the Gy-ei carefully retain, and the desire for which perhaps forms the secret motive of most lady asserters of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/but-there-is-one-privilege-the-gy-ei-carefully-retain-and-the-desire/)

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> [“The communities were in fierce competition with each other. They had their rich and their poor; they had orators and conquerors; they made war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/the-communities-were-in-fierce-competition-with-each-other-they-had/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

> [“The superstitious belief, common to miners, that gnomes or fiends dwell within the bowels of the earth, began to seize me. I shuddered at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/the-superstitious-belief-common-to-miners-that-gnomes-or-fiends-dwell/)

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> [“But why should you wish to leave a state of society which you so politely allow to be more felicitous than your own?” “Oh,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/but-why-should-you-wish-to-leave-a-state-of-society-which-you-so/)

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> [“This, then, was the mystery that had so galled him,—this the cause of the quarrel with the Cardinal; this the secret not to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/this-then-was-the-mystery-that-had-so-galled-him-this-the-cause-of/)

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> [“(This sect (the Encyclopaedists) propagate with much zeal the doctrine of materialism, which prevails among the great and the wits; we owe to it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/this-sect-the-encyclopaedists-propagate-with-much-zeal-the-doctrine/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

> [“Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism give place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/il-faut-absolument-que-la-superstition-et-le-fanatisme-fassent-place/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

> [“Its chief covering seemed to me to be composed of large wings folded over its breast and reaching to its knees; the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/its-chief-covering-seemed-to-me-to-be-composed-of-large-wings-folded/)

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> [“Observe yon tree in your neighbour's garden. Look how it grows up, crooked and distorted. Some wind scattered the germ from which it sprang,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/observe-yon-tree-in-your-neighbour-s-garden-look-how-it-grows-up/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

> [“A Gy wears wings habitually when yet a virgin—she joins the Ana in their aerial sports—she adventures alone and afar into the wilder regions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/a-gy-wears-wings-habitually-when-yet-a-virgin-she-joins-the-ana-in/)

[Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton/)

> [“Monuments of murder, how poor the thoughts, how mean the memories ye awaken, compared with those that speak to the heart of man on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/monuments-of-murder-how-poor-the-thoughts-how-mean-the-memories-ye/)

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> [“But among this people there can be no doubt about the rights of women, because, as I have before said, the Gy, physically speaking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bulwer-lytton/but-among-this-people-there-can-be-no-doubt-about-the-rights-of-women/)

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