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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Life
Leading
Ones
Path
Existence
Within
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