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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
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Kindness
May
Take
Real
Flatters
Insincere
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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