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"And whether coldness, pride, or virtue dignify A woman, so shes good, what does it signify?"
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Don Juan (Byron)Between two worlds life hovers like a star, — Don Juan (Byron)
"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, Twixt night and morn, upon the horizons verge. How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be!"
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Don Juan is an English unfinished satirical epic poem written by Lord Byron between 1819 and 1824 that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women. Don Juan is a poem written in ottava rima and presented in 16 cantos in which Lord Byron derived the character of Don Juan from traditional Spanish folk legends; ho
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