"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
"I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law."
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Source: Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge
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