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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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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