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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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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Individual
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Individuals
Growth
Nations

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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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