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To Countess Teresa Guiccioli ... "ever yours most affectionately A. A. in e." ... which means 'amico e amante in eterno' ('friend and lover for ever').

"... I always liked that boy - perhaps, in part, from some resemblance in the less fortunate part of our destinies - I mean, to avoid mistakes, his lameness. But there is this difference, that he appears a halting angel, who has tripped against a star; whilst I am Le Diable Boiteux - a sobriquet which I marvel that, amongst their various nominis umbrae, the Orthodox have not hit upon."

"... But I am prosing. The gods go with you, and as much immortality of all kinds as may suit your present and all other existence. Yours, &c."

"Man is born passionate of body - but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his Main-spring of Mind. - But God help us all! - It is at present a sad jar of atoms."

... I guess I tend to read letters in very short bursts.

"... I do not write often, but I like to receive letters, when therefore you are disposed to philosophize, no one standeth more in need of precepts of all sorts than ... yours very truly, Byron"

"... and one can seldom be sure where he intended to end a sentence, or whether he recognized the sentence as a unit of expression."