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Quote by Lord Byron
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – Lord Byron

Other quotes by Lord Byron

Though sages may pour out their wisdoms treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. – Lord Byron

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Lord Byron
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. – Lord Byron

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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. – Francis Bacon, Essays

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Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. РLouis C̩line, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932

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One can make a day of any size… – John Muir, August 1875 [I love how this sounds like it could so beautifully appl

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To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. – Author Unknown

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