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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

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
Visions
Contentment
Vision
Better

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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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