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“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”

Walter Savage Landor · Happiness

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Walter Savage Landor

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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Walter Savage Landor

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 him.

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Walter Savage Landor

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

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Walter Savage Landor

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

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