"As an adviser I am rather qualified to point out what should be avoided than what may be pursued, for my own life has been but a series of imprudences and conflicts of all descriptions. From these I have only acquired experience; if repentance were added, perhaps it might be all the better, since I do not find the former of much avail without it."
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Appendix V—Correspondence with Walter Scott
The following is Walter Scott's reply to Byron's [letter] of July 6, 1812:
"Abbotsford, near Melrose, 16th July, 1812.
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My Lord