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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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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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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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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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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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