There's no weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aim'd) as praise. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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There's no weapon that slays
Its victim so surely (if well aim'd) as praise.

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About Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (8 November, 1831 – 24 November, 1891) was an English statesman, serving as Viceroy of India; and poet, under the pen name of Owen Meredith.

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Native Name: Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1. Earl of Lytton
Alternative Names: Owen Meredith Robert Bulwer-Lytton Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Edward Robert, Earl of Lytton E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton
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We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man can not live without cooks.
He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope—what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,—what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?

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