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    “That celebrated,
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    Underrated
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    The Duke of Plaza-Toro!”
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    “I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.”
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    “If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: “Byron is dead!””
    —Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866)