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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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