Quotes by George Gordon Byron
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
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Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
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I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another.
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
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One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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For the night shows stars and women in a better light.
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Friendship is Love, without his wings.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
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