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"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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"But whether all, or each, or none of these May be the hoarders principle of action, The fool will call such mania a disease: — What is his own? Go — look at each transaction, Wars, revels, loves — do these bring men more ease Than the mere plodding through each "vulgar fraction"? Or do they benefit mankind? Lean miser! Let spendthrifts heirs enquire of yours — whos wiser?"
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Don Juan (Byron)
Don Juan (Byron)
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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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