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My history will furnish materials for a pretty little Romance which shall be entitled and denominated the loves of Lord B.

Byron, 1804

I hate things all fiction; and therefore the Merchant and Othello have no great associations to me; but Pierre has. There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Byron, 1817