"Put himself upon his good behaviour."
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Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 47; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 641.
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Lord Byron
1812 – 1818
George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
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