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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth


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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...
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