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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.
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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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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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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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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