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The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.


Lord Byron

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LORD BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
LORD BYRON Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
LORD BYRON Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
LORD BYRON There is, in fact, no law or government at all [in Italy]; and it is wonderful how well things go on...
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