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How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be! — Lord Byron

Poem

How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be!

Lord Byron
Don Juan · 1824
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Human potentialHuman nature
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Poem
Time
1824
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Lord Byron
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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 15, st. 99.
Original citation
Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Hunt, 1824, canto 15, st. 99.

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