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A weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

Lady Caroline Lamb

Of Byron:

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

Lady Caroline Lamb

What is left that shall replace her? What friend, what tie, shall make up for her eternal absence?

Lady Caroline Lamb

I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment.

Lady Caroline Lamb

My mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

Lady Caroline Lamb

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

Lady Caroline Lamb

It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.

Lady Caroline Lamb

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself...

Lady Caroline Lamb

The sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

Lady Caroline Lamb

Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

Lady Caroline Lamb

Lady Caroline Lamb

Lady Caroline Lamb

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Born: November 13, 1785

Died: January 25, 1828 (aged 42)

Bio: Lady Caroline Lamb, known as the Honourable Caroline Ponsonby until her father succeeded to the earldom in 1793, was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for her affair with Lord Byron in 1812. Her husband was The Hon.

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