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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.
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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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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