George Byron

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. ↗

— George Byron

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. ↗

— George Byron

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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. ↗

— George Byron

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. ↗

— George Byron

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The best prophet of the future is the past. ↗

— George Byron

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ↗

— George Byron

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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. ↗

— George Byron

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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? ↗

— George Byron

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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. ↗

— George Byron

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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

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