Dignity Quote by Walter Savage Landor

“Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.” quote by Walter Savage Landor — Download Open image

“Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.”

Walter Savage Landor

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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

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