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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one. ↗

— George Byron

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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. ↗

— George Byron

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ↗

— Lord 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. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

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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? ↗

— Lord Byron

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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. ↗

— Lord Byron

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