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• And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 37...
• Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 12...
• What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman!
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ix, Stanza 64...
• T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 59...
• In my hot youth, when George the Third was king.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 212...
• The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 40...
• He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iii, Stanza 41...
• What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 218...
• Alas, the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ii, Stanza 199...