"The conscience is the most flexible material in……" — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
"The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain."
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193 Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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- O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
- To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
- I did not fall into love - I rose into love.
- There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure…
- Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
- Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart…
- The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
- The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
- Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it
- If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
- When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
- A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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