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Eugene Onegin p.1 by Pushkin

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Napoleon and Byron

Napoleon and Byron kind of go just hand in hand well because Byron did actually did die in the how he died was he died fighting the Ottoman Empire on behalf of the Greeks huh in this is in 1824 so this is right around the time that Bushkin was writing this. They're both kind of like man against the world like individual against everything got it okay? That's what I associate with being like peak romantic literature of course they had to call him Lord Byron because his name is George Gordon Byron, which is a stupid name yeah you should see what he looks like though he looks like a freaking little weasel hold on let me see oh my god he does um anyway anyway  I

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