“Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.”

— Lord Byron, Manfred (1817), Act II, Scene 4

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1788 – 1824

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

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