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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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