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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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