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Children are what the mothers are.
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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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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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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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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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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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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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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