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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

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. – Lord Byron

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Lord Byron
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. – Lord Byron

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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. – Lord Byron

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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. – Dion Boucicault

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I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. – Thomas Lux

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

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