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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

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
Aging
Quiet
Age
Death
Without
Thing

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