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• Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytto
• Take away the sword; States can be saved without it.
  -- Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873) -- Richelieu, Act ii, Sc. 2...
• When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytto
• Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
  -- Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873) -- Richelieu, Act ii, Sc. 2...
• Buy my flowers,--oh buy, I pray! The blind girl comes from afar.
  -- Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873) -- Buy my Flowe...
• In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail.
  -- Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873) -- Richelieu, Act ii, Sc. 2...
• The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash,--the Rupert of debate!
  -- Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873) -- The New Timon, (1846), Part i...
• The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
  -- Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873) -- Night and Morning, Chap. vi...
• When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee
  Bend on me then thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea....