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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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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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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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