George Byron

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. ↗

— George Byron

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Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. ↗

— George Byron

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. ↗

— George Byron

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. ↗

— George Byron

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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ↗

— George Byron

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All farewells should be sudden, when forever. ↗

— George Byron

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ↗

— George Byron

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. ↗

— George Byron

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. ↗

— George Byron

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