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

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

— George Byron

#everything #hate #off #right #rob

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

— Lord Byron

#deepest #know #knowledge #life #most

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

#because #friends #generally #indeed #jealousy

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ↗

— Lord Byron

#first #her #life #love #love is

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

#anxious #atom #came #dead #go

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

#being #care #fame #know #known

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ↗

— Lord Byron

#folly #loves #martyrdom

The dew of compassion is a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

#dew #tear

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