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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one 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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Warwick
Warwickshire
Never
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Fields
Move
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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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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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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