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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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