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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.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Dance
Never
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Others
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Wells
Partake
Well
Danced
Right
Enjoyment
Even
Dancing
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