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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

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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Peace
War

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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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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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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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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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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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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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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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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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