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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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