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Great Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
- Great men always pay deference to greater.
- A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
- Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
- Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great…
- Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
- Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
- Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
- Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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