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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Lord Byron

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
LORD BYRON

Came Dead Infinity Inquire Know Living Midst Myriad Shall Star System Useless World
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!
LORD BYRON

All Arithmetical Coarseness Deity Delicacy Dirt Groveling Mind Mix Roughness Sensuality Sentiment Soaring Tenderness
I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
LORD BYRON

Count Cry Drawer Embedded Keep Love Money Once Over Sequin Some Such Wek
What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
LORD BYRON

Drink Mere Pause Thinking
The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
LORD BYRON

Better Earth Establishment Fact Horse One People Poverty Power Rich Slavery Sort
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
LORD BYRON

Alone Appetite Fresh Get Only Out
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
LORD BYRON

Divine Form Man Part Pure Soul Steam Trouble
The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
LORD BYRON

Ache Along Country Eternity Leave Limpid People Person Reviry Think Unbound
The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
LORD BYRON

Crave Drive Even Exist Feel Game Great Life Object Pain Sensation Though Void
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD BYRON

Also Evil Generally Must Mystery Suspect
Come what may, I have been blest.
LORD BYRON

Been Blest Come May
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
LORD BYRON

Biggest Dare Food Reason Slave
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
LORD BYRON

Answer Gold Knowledge Letter Need Only Pleasure Reading
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 BYRON

Blown Brain Day Given Good Law Many Moter Pleasure Recollection
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
LORD BYRON

Blue Dark Deep Feetm Sweep Ocean Over Roll Teen Thousand Vain
In solitude, where we are least alone.
LORD BYRON

Alone Lease Solitude

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