Tag: Lord Byron
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron
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Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
Lord Byron
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Her great merit is finding out mine – there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord Byron
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
Lord Byron
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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Lord Byron
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.
Lord Byron
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Lord Byron
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Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron