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Flattery
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Food
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Forgiveness
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Freedom
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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Friends
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Gambling (Gaming)
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Genius
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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.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Glory
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Government
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The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Greatness & Great Things
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Greed
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Happiness
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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Hate
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Heart
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Hell
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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History
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History is the devil's scripture.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Home
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Hope
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore, Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 4, ed. Leslie Marchand (1975)
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Humanity
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Hypocrisy
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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