"I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee."
— World

January 1, 1970

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Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 113; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.