Letters of Lord Byron

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What is Hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

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Lord Byron. Letter To Thomas Moore. 28 Oct. 1815.

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Current Citation

Lord Byron. Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection, edited by Richard Lansdown. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

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