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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
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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