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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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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Pebbles
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Often
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Twig
Rarely
Baseness
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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