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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask 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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Warwickshire
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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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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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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