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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

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
Eye
Friendship
Sentiment
Give
Sweet
Distress
Giving
Friend
Mortal
Heart
Turn
Sentiments
Conviviality
Every
Eyes
Mortals
Overflows
Would
Word
Misery
Overflow
Hours
Gratitude
Utterance
Turns
Sacred
Gladness

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