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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Close
Autumn
Age
Prepare
Insensibly
Fall
Necessity
Damp
Around
Gentle
Tenacity
Years
Leaves
Detached
Life
Thus
Recorded
Sorrow
Sink
Pressure
Affliction

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