There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold the next day it is as healthy as ever.Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle when you talk to the ignorant, brag when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
How many of us have been attracted to reason first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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