George Gordon Byron

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    “Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift
    My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.”
    —David Lloyd George (1863–1945)

    “And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “The conqueror at least; who, ere Time renders
    His last award, will have the long grass grow
    Above his burnt-out brain and sapless cinders.
    If I might augur, I should rate but low
    Their chances: they are too numerous, like the thirty
    Mock tyrants, when Rome’s annals wax’d but dirty.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)