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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

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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Nature
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Lord Byron
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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. – Lord Byron

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Writing
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Lord Byron
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. – Ambrose Bierce

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Carpe Diem

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. – Braveheart

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Carpe Diem

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Carpe Diem

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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Carpe Diem

Random Quotes

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. – James Gibbons Huneker

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Wisdom

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning! – Nafisa Joseph

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Morning

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more womens stories. God, the BBCs practically run by women. – Julie Walters

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Education

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. – Vera Brittain

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Marriage