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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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