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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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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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