The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
LORD BYRONSocrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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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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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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