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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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