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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

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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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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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