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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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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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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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