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• Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
  -- Sir William Davenant (1605-1668) -- The Just Italian, Act v, Sc. 1...
• And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 37...
• Land of lost gods and godlike men.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, Stanza 85...
• The women pardon'd all except her face.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 113...
• But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 27...
• That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul,--the dinner bell.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 49...
• Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
  -- Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) -- The Faerie Queene, Book v, Canto ii, St. 43...
• All who joy would win Must share it, --happiness was born a twin.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ii, Stanza 172...
• A bold bad man. -- Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) -- The Faerie Queene, Book i, Canto i, St. 37