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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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
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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
Walter Savage Landor
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor
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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What is reading but silent conversation?
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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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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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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
Walter Savage Landor
The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
Walter Savage Landor
I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
Walter Savage Landor
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
Walter Savage Landor
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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