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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Farewell
Hear
Happy
Never

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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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