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• Brave men were living before Agamemnon. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 5
• The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto viii, Stanza 3...
• And puts himself upon his good behaviour.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto v, Stanza 47...
• 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...
• T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,-- Stranger than fiction.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiv, Stanza 101...
• Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 9...
• The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea
  And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free....