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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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