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From Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
- There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from…
- We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but…
- Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from…
- We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
- Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where…
- A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate…
- Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
- It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no…
- Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
- If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
- We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
- Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from…
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