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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

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
Daily
Greatness
Unsociable

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