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Happy the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Last of the Barons (1843)

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More quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Strike from mankind the principle of Faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Caxtoniana (1862)

To the man who aspires to know, no man who has been the meanest student of knowledge should be unknown.

Zanoni (1842)

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light—every eye looking on finds its own.

Caxtoniana (1862)

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Richelieu (1839)

The heart loves repose and the soul contemplation, but the mind needs action.

A Strange Story (1850)

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