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Cats like men are flatterers.
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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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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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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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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Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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