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Letter "L" » Lord Byron Quotes
«'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.»
Author: Lord Byron
«A `strange coincidence', to use a phrase / By which such things are settled nowadays.»
«Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.»
«America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.»
«But Life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit, Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste»
Author: Lord Byron
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Sorrow
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apples, Dead Sea, Dead Sea Fruit, detested, sea shore, The Apples
«I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.»
«The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.»
Author: Lord Byron
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old times
«I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge / Is for a flying enemy.»
Author: Lord Byron
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Golden Bridge
«The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.»
Author: Lord Byron
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keep down
«And hold up to the sun my little taper.»
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