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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Dancing
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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