Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such conterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
ATTRIBUTION:
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. letter, Nov. 17, 1816, to poet Thomas Moore. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 5, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).
