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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

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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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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