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"Know thyself, " said the old philosopher, "improve thyself, " saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.
 Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician
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| born | * May 23, 1803 | |
| died | † January 18, 1873, Torquay | |
| function | novelist, poet, playwright, and politician | |
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| Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night." | |
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