Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRONThe devil was the first democrat
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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