George Gordon Byron
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“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing ... I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.”
—Henry George (1839–1897)
“War’s a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Yes! ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)