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• And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 4...
• Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 12...
• Arcades ambo,"--id est, blackguards both.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 93...
• The precious porcelain of human clay. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 11
• These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 93...
• Brave men were living before Agamemnon. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 5
• But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza 88...
• In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 17...
• Oh "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!" As some one somewhere sings about the sky.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 110...