Quote#Nature
Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones
Quote byLord Byron · 1788–1824
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Age of Bronze, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.
— Lord Byron
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