Author: George, Lord Byron Gordon

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  • IN: All Unquiet Things (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This makes the madmen who have made men mad By their contagion; Conquerors and Kings, Founders of sects and systems, to whom add Sophists, Bards, Statesmen, all unquiet things Which stir too strongly the soul's secret springs, And are themselves the fools to those they fool; Envied, yet how unenviable! What stings Are theirs! One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule.
    FROM: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, (1812), Poem, UK