Quote by George Byron
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. – George Byron

Other quotes by George Byron

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. – George Byron

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Music
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. – George Byron

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Religion
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. – George Byron

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Women
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A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money. – Lewis Hallam

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Travel

Im passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… Ive lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. – John Galliano

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I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. – Tim Cahill

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I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. Ive been working with them for a year. – Anatoli Boukreev

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Travel

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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. – Anthony Burgess

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When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section? And she would look at me and say, No honey, I dont know what youre talking about. – Tori Amos

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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth. – Fareed Zakaria

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Future

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Forgiveness