| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 5758 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (17881824) |
| QUOTATION: | The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 40. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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