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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Truth
Never
Vestiges
Usurped
Ridicule
Followed

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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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