From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compoun

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness–a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbors wife. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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