“There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day …”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“travelng and travelers”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don’t make love till almost obliged.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a “grand peut-être”Mbut still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it–the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“War’s a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“Such is Truth! Men dare not look her in the face, except by degrees: they mistake her for a Gorgon, instead of knowing her to be aMinerva.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“We don’t arrive at it by standing on one leg or on the first day of our setting out–but though we may jostle one another on the way that is no reason why we should strike or trample–elbowing’s enough.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“I have always laid it down as a maxim–and found it justified by experience–that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex–but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one’s partners in the waltz of thisworld–not much remembered when the ball is over.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
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