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Lord Byron

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.


— Lord Byron


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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.


— Lord Byron


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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.


— Lord Byron


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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.


— Lord Byron


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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.


— Lord Byron


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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


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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.


— Lord Byron


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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.


— Lord Byron


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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.


— Lord Byron


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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.


— Lord Byron


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Described as "a woman without judgment or self-command" Catherine either spoiled and indulged her son or aggravated him with her capricious stubbornness. But the more I reflect the more I am bewildered to assign any cause for this precocity of affection. Affairs and scandals

In 1812 Byron embarked on a well-publicised affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public.

Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts numerous love affairs rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister and self-imposed exile. George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron later George Gordon Noel 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) commonly known simply as Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.

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