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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

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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Warwick
Warwickshire
Exploring
Library
Nothing
Pleasanter

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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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