There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.
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History is the devil's scripture.Lord Byron
The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap I slumber not the thorn is in my couch Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
Lord Byron
The land of self-interest groans from shore to shore, For fear that plenty should attain the poor.
Lord Byron
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
Lord Byron
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
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