| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 9657 |
| QUOTATION: | There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. letter, Jan. 2, 1821, to the poet Thomas Moore. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 8, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).
Written from Ravenna during a period of great revolutionary ferment. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Byron Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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