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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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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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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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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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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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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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