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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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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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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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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