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• What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
• Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 12...
• Brave men were living before Agamemnon. -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 5
• Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
  -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Jua...
• What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman!
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ix, Stanza 64...
• And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xi, Stanza 37...
• Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto iv, Stanza 12...
• There 's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto ii, Stanza 34...
• Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 9...