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> [When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/when-a-cat-flatters-he-is-not-insincere-you-may-safely-take-it-for/)

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

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> [Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/where-power-is-absent-we-may-find-the-robe-of-genius-but-we-miss-the/)

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

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> [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/)

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> [Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/friendship-may-sometimes-step-a-few-paces-in-advance-of-truth/)

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

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> [Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/two-evils-of-almost-equal-weight-may-befall-the-man-of-erudition/)

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

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

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

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> [A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/a-mercantile-democracy-may-govern-long-and-widely-a-mercantile/)

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

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> [We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/we-may-receive-so-much-light-as-not-to-see-and-so-much-philosophy-as/)

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

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> [It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/it-often-comes-into-my-head-that-we-may-dream-when-we-are-dead-but-i/)

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

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> [No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/no-good-writer-was-ever-long-neglected-no-great-man-overlooked-by-men/)

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

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> [Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/heat-and-animosity-contest-and-conflict-may-sharpen-the-wits-although/)

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

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> [Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose…](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/)

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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;…](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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> [Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/religion-is-the-eldest-sister-of-philosophy-on-whatever-subjects-they/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/wise-or-unwise-who-doubts-for-a-moment-that-contentment-is-the-cause/)

[Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](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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## Other authors on May

## 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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