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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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Merit
Twig
Rarely
Baseness
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Pebble
Spring
Twigs
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Highest
Pebbles
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Elevation
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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