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Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the growth of human will?


Lord Byron

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Sweet Marie, she loves just me
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LOUISE ERDRICH The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
ALEXIS CARREL Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotion made the ply of human life.
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LORD BYRON Let these describe the indescribable.
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LORD BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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LORD BYRON The busy have no time for tears.
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LORD BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
LORD BYRON That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
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LORD BYRON In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
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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...
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