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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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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Dream
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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