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“ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ”

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What is reading but silent conversation.

~ Walter Savage Landor

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

~ Walter Savage Landor

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

~ Walter Savage Landor

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

~ Walter Savage Landor