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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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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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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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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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