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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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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Warwickshire
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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