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«Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
calamitous, detailed, drawn-out, mishap, Mishaps, witticism, witticisms
«Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.»
«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.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Prose
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on the other hand, swoon, swooned, swooning, swoons
«We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.»
«The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.»
«No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.»
«Consult duty not events.»
«An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.»
«Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.»
«Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak / Four not exempt from pride some future day. / Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek / Over my open volume you will say, / `This man loved me!' then rise and trip away.»
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