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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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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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Consult duty not events.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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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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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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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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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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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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