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Great Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
- A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
- Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within…
- Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And…
- The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
- Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
- The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four…
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