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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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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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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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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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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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