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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Flowers
Souls
Delight
Soon
Flower
Canker
Cities
Rarer
Soul
Sweetest
Like
Purity

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