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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.

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
Strove
Quarrels
Strife
None
Worth

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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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