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  ...get only a fresh puncture.[ki]
LXXVIII.
What a delightful thing's a turnpike road! So smooth, so level, such a mode of shaving The Earth, as scarce the eagle in the broad Air can accomplish, with his wide wings waving. Had such been cut in Phaeton's time, the god Had told his son to satisfy his craving With the York mail;--but onward as we roll, _Surgit amari aliquid_--the toll![555]
LXXIX.
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!   Take lives--take wives--take aught except men's purses: As Machiavel shows those in purple raiment, Such is the shortest way to general curses.[556] They hate a murderer much less than a claimant On that sweet ore which everybody nurses.-- Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket:
LXXX.
So said the Florentine: ye monarchs, hearken To your instructor. Juan now was...   Byron, Lord

Excerpt from The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 · This quote is about payment · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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