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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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