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"The best of prophets of the future is the past."
Lord Byron / Letter, Jan. 28, 1821.
Letter, Jan. 28, 1821.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"What say you to such a supper with such a woman?"
Lord Byron / Note to a Letter on Bowles's Strictures.
Note to a Letter on Bowles's Strictures.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked."
Thomas B. Macaulay / On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. 1830.
On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. 1830.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
Thomas B. Macaulay / On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. 1830.
On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. 1830.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,--a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife."
Thomas B. Macaulay / On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. 1830.
On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. 1830.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain