"For only by knowledge of that which is not Thyself shall thyself be learn'd."
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Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandAcademics from the United KingdomViceroys of IndiaBritish Ambassadors to France
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"Γνωθι Σεαυτον" ("Know Thyself"), in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Vol. I (1867), p. 247.
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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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