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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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Warwickshire
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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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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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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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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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