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Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Vanity, Nerves, Opinion

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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

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Art, Hands, Maids

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We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

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Men, Rushing, Weakness

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Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

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Prayer, Eye, Heart

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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

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Appreciation, Compliment, Ceremony

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

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Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

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Country, Dog, Kindness

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Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

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Heart, Ambition, Errors

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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

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Men, Punctuality, Virtue

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Genius has no brother.

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Brother, Genius

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Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

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Art, Eye, Grace

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Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

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Thinking, Gentleman, Doe

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There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

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Selfishness, Want, Sensitive

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The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

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Voice, Giving, Sneezing

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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.

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Wise, Humble, Advice

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Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

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Jealousy, Strong, Men

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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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Mountain, Moles, World

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Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

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Running, Believe, Soul

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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

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Beautiful, Dull, Genius

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The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

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Moving, People, Wife

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Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

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Lonely, Mind, Punctuality

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Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

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Innocence, Poor, Substitutes

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Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

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Names, Soldier, Honor

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We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

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Death, Stars, Ocean

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Expression is the mystery of beauty.

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Beauty, Expression, Mystery

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Born: May 25, 1803
Died: January 18, 1873
Occupation: Novelist
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