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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts—you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. letter, Oct. 26, 1819. Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 6, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).)
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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead,
Adorner of the ruin, comforter
And only healer when the heart hath bled;
... Time, the avenger!
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, cto. 4, st. 130.)
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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Don Juan, cto. 1, st. 63 (1819-1824).)
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Such is Truth! Men dare not look her in the face, except by degrees: they mistake her for a Gorgon, instead of knowing her to be a Minerva.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Letter, June 10, 1822, to author Isaac D'Israeli. Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 9, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).)
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, cto. 2, st. 98 (1812-1818).)
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Dreading that climax of all human ills
The inflammation of his weekly bills.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Don Juan, cto. 3, st. 35 (1819-1824).)
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Letter, June 10, 1822, to author Isaac D'Israeli. Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 9, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1979).)
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