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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

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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Divine
Humanity
Earth
Humans
Nothing

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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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