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• None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, Stanza 24...
• The lover in the husband may be lost. -- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773) -- Advice to a Lady
• I will hold your secrets dearer than the whispers of my heart.
• What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition?
  To be fair. -- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773) -- Advice to a Lady...
• Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.
  -- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773) -- Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country...
• Women, like princes, find few real friends. -- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773) -- Advice to a Lady
• The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfo
  yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilso...
• None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.
  -- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773) -- Epigram...
• Think of how much fun you could have with the doctor's wife and a bucket of apples.