Gluttony Quote by Walter Savage Landor

“O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.” quote by Walter Savage Landor — Download Open image

“O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.”

Walter Savage Landor

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