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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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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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