George Gordon Byron

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    Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead,
    Adorner of the ruin, comforter
    And only healer when the heart hath bled;
    ... Time, the avenger!
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
    English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    Romances I ne’er read like those I have seen.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    America is a model of force and freedom & moderation—with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)