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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

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. – Lord Byron

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. – Lord Byron

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though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. – e.e. cummings

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I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. – Tagore

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Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain

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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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