"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

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"Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were."

Byron, Lord on Age and Aging
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"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

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"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?"

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"A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged."

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"I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming."

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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

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"It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable."

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"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one."

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"Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity."

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"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on Dissent
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"He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse."

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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."

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"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."

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"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."

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"Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss."

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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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"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

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"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

Byron, Lord on Fame
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"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

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"Fame is the thirst of youth."

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"My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me."

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"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."

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"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

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"Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star."

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