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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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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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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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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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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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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