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O'er the glad water of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home! Lord George Gordon Byron		Sunday May 31, 2026
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About William Lamb, Lord Melbourne

	William Lamb, Lord Melbourne
	(1779-1848) 2nd Viscount British statesman, prime minister.

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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

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