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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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Warwickshire
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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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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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
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Children are what the mothers are.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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