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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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