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If we must have a tyrant – let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.

Source:Letter to John Myrray (Febryary 21, 1820)
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  • Name: Lord Byron
  • Profession: Poet
  • Born: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
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