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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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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