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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Cat
Kindness
May
Take
Real
Flatters
Insincere
Safely

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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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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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Cats like men are flatterers.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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