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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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Miseries
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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