A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
LORD BYRONIt is when we think we lead that we are most led.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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