… to all these “mistresses”
– Lord help me
– I have had but one.
Now don’t scold ―but what could I do?
— Lord Byron, September 8 1816.
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A foolish girl, in spite of all I could say or do, would come after me
— Lord Byron, September 8 1816. pic.twitter.com/2RlCTB494q
— 1816now (@1816now) September 9, 2016
I could not exactly play the Stoic with a woman who had scrambled eight hundred miles to unphilosophize me.
—Lord Byron, September 8 1816.
— 1816now (@1816now) September 9, 2016