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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

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
Poverty
Wealth
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Excessive
Wherever
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