At three and twenty I am left alone, and what more can we be at seventy? It is true, I am young enough to begin again, but with whom can I retrace the laughing part of life? It is odd how few of my friends have died a quiet death; I mean in their beds. But a quiet life is of more consequence.

Lord Byron (George Gordon),

Letter to James Wedderburn Webster, August 24, 1811


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