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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

5597 George Gordon Noel Byron

 
NUMBER:5597
AUTHOR:George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824)
QUOTATION:None are so desolate but something dear,
Dearer than self, possesses or possess’d
A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
ATTRIBUTION:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 24.