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Lord Byron

Art and Culture
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, di
4.6 · 57 votes · 38 reads
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Time
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
3.4 · 54 votes · 78 reads
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Society
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
3.2 · 6 votes · 5 reads
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Various
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
3.5 · 12 votes · 2 reads
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Society
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.
4.9 · 35 votes · 188 reads
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Feelings
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
3.2 · 19 votes · 26 reads
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Art and Culture
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
3.1 · 37 votes · 106 reads
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Thought and Reason
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
4.2 · 60 votes · 137 reads
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Feelings
We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness - but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
3.1 · 38 votes · 176 reads
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Nature
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
4.2 · 34 votes · 136 reads
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Various
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
3.3 · 50 votes · 160 reads
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Time
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
3.1 · 26 votes · 23 reads
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Society
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
3.2 · 11 votes · 135 reads
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Nature
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
4.9 · 58 votes · 123 reads
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Government and Politics
When we think we lead we are most led.
4.7 · 7 votes · 184 reads
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Feelings
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
3.0 · 64 votes · 49 reads
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Feelings
Who loves, raves.
4.9 · 60 votes · 7 reads
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Defects
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
4.0 · 7 votes · 138 reads
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Art and Culture
With just enough of learning to misquote.
3.6 · 20 votes · 111 reads
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Nature
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
3.5 · 54 votes · 151 reads
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Society
Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
3.9 · 46 votes · 8 reads
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Society
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
5.0 · 7 votes · 37 reads
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