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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
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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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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