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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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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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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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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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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