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Cats ask plainly for what they want.

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
Plainly
Cats
Cat
Asks

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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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Children are what the mothers are.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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Cats like men are flatterers.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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