Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 40.

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, In all these he was much and deeply read.

— Lord Byron on Learning

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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, In all these he was much and deeply read." in the context of "Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 40." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Lord Byron

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.