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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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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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