Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and, if you cannot contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

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There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

things-in-life sacrifice health

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

feelings heart love-is

Whoever, with an earnest soul,

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

stars goal hero

A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted, and cannot bear her anguish and solitude, and hence fills up the void with a second idol.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

solitude idols love

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

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