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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
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Friendship
Broken
Vase
Violence
Vases
May
Flawed
Wells
Accident
Well
Trusted
Never
Accidents
Heat

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