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• Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
  -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Jua...
• In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love.
  -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Jua...
• You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?
  Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?...
• There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.
  A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell....
• Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo, The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 12...
• In my hot youth, when George the Third was king.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 212...
• Goodnight -- Lord Byro
• The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- The Bride of Abydos, Canto ii, Stanza 2...
• Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
  -- Lord Chesterfield...