I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
LORD BYRONWhat is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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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!
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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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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