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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the short lyric " She Walks in Beauty ." He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.


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Quote Left On with the dance! Let joy be undefined! Quote Right
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Quote Left Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. Quote Right
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Quote Left I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, & cry over them once a week. Quote Right
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Quote Left I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring. Quote Right
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Quote Left Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Quote Right
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