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• Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

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  Food, Apples, Cooking

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• Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

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  Hands, Play, Age

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• What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

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  Heart, Wounds And Scars, Deep Wounds

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

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• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

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  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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  Time, Age, Twenties

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• And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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  Lonely, Wind, Lyric Poetry

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.948, Delphi Classics

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• Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

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  Sausage, Bologna, Pope

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• The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

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  Life, Friendship, Dog

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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• Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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  Jealousy, Envy, World

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

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  Funny Marriage, Tragedy, Comedy

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 9

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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, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. 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.

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  Government, People, Feelings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3005, Delphi Classics

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• What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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  Idols, People, Literature

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• Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

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  Rocks, Shock

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.773, Delphi Classics

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• Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

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  Evil, Literature, Mystery

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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 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.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

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• I awoke one day to find myself famous.

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  One Day

  "Mini Bio/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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  Art, Poetry, Should

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• Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

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  Grief, And Love, Apparel

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

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  Lying, Deceit, Maids

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

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  Morality, Rough, Johnson

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.279, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.

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  Sleep, Reality, World

  George Gordon Byron, “The Dream”

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• 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.

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  Mother, Good Day, Law

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

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• Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

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  Age, Decay, Divinity

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.198

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

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  Laughter, Drinking, Food

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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  Selfish, Trust No One, Literature

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