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• Sweet is revenge—especially to women.

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• Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin is a pleasure.

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• Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ’Tis woman’s whole existence.

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• There’s nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion.

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• Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of Life is but intoxication. Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation.

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• He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat, With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought.

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• All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

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• The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

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• And if I laugh at any mortal thing ’Tis that I may not weep.

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• There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which taken at the flood, leads—God knows where.

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• I have a passion for the name of ‘Mary,’ For once it was a magic sound to me; And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

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• The English winter—ending in July, To recommence in August.

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• Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

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• And, after all what is a lie ? ’Tis but The truth in masquerade.

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• ’Tis strange but true; for truth is always stranger; Stranger than fiction.

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• Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

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• I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

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• All present life is but an interjection, An ‘Oh!’ or ‘Ah!’ of joy or misery, Or a ‘Ha! ha!’ or ‘Bah!’—a yawn or ‘Pooh!’ Of which perhaps the latter is most true.

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• There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

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• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, ’Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge. How little dowe know that which we are! How less what we may be!

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George Gordon Byron (102)

Birth:	22nd January, 1788
Death:	19th April, 1824
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet, Politician

About

George Gordon Byron was born in London, England. He, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty". He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University, in 1805. He wrote several poetry books include: Hours of Idleness, The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Corsair, Lara, The Prisoner of Chillon, Manfred, Mazeppa, The Vision of Judgment, Beppo, and The Siege of Corinth. He was member of the  House of Lords in 1809.

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