What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONThe art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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?
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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