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title: "2 Flawed Quotes By Walter Savage Landor"
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> [Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/let-me-take-up-your-metaphor-friendship-is-a-vase-which-when-it-is/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

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> [Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/friendship-is-a-vase-which-when-it-is-flawed-by-heat-or-violence-or/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

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## More by Walter Savage Landor

> [Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/nations-like-individuals-interest-us-in-their-growth/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/ah-what-avails-the-sceptred-race-ah-what-the-form-divine-what-every/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/a-solitude-is-the-audience-chamber-of-god/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/no-ashes-are-lighter-than-those-of-incense-and-few-things-burn-out/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/as-there-are-some-flowers-which-you-should-smell-but-slightly-to/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [We talk on principle, but we act on interest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/we-talk-on-principle-but-we-act-on-interest/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/states-like-men-have-their-growth-their-manhood-their-decrepitude/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/the-only-effect-of-public-punishment-is-to-show-the-rabble-how/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/every-great-writer-is-a-writer-of-history-let-him-treat-on-almost/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/i-strove-with-none-for-none-was-worth-my-strife/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/the-habit-of-pleasing-by-flattery-makes-a-language-soft-the-fear-of/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/there-is-no-eloquence-which-does-not-agitate-the-soul/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/we-care-not-how-many-see-us-in-choler-when-we-rave-and-bluster-and/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/whatever-is-worthy-to-be-loved-for-anything-is-worthy-of-preservation/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

> [The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/the-present-like-a-note-in-music-is-nothing-but-as-it-appertains-to/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/)

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