“In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail."”

—  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu

Act iii, Scene i.
Richelieu (1839)

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English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician 1803–1873

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