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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Byron
Man
May
Will
Woman
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
George Byron
Farewells
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
George Byron
Thought
Dew
Words
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
George Byron
Chivalry
Country
Right
Spain
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
George Byron
Life
Superiority
Virtue
Day
Opinion
Reward
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
George Byron
Country
Vote
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
George Byron
Truth
Opinions
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
George Byron
Being
Future
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
George Byron
Love
Men
Haste
Hatred
Leisure
Now
Pleasure
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
George Byron
Wisdom
Certainty
Envy
Fool
Self
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
George Byron
Man
Reason
Sleep
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
George Byron
Idea
Pain
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
George Byron
Enemies
Friends
Jealousy
Lovers
May
Self
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
George Byron
Life
Beauty
Duty
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
George Byron
Merit
Nothing