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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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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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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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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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