If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord Byron
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  1. When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.

  2. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

  3. Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.

  4. I am not now That which I have been.

  5. A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

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