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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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