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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Chambers
Politics
Unwise
Face
Enchanted
Faces
Lamps
Political
Chamber
Become
Fierce
Power
Colour
Every
Whose
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