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5 quotes from Don Juan by Lord Byron, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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'T is strange,—but true; for Truth is always strange— Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange!
Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIV (1823), stanza CI
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'T is a Woman's whole existence
Donna Julia, in her farewell letter to Juan · Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I (1819), stanza CXCIV
I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one
Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto I (1819), stanza I
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep
Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto IV (1821), stanza IV
The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free
The poet who sings at Juan and Haidée's feast · Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto III (1821), The Isles of Greece, verse 3

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