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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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