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“Better to sink beneath the shock than moulder piecemeal on the rock.”

— Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813)

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About Lord Byron

1788 – 1824

English Romantic poet, author of 'Don Juan' and 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'.

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