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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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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Warwickshire
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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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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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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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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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.
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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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