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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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
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Girl
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