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Quotes by W. S. Landor

3 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.— filed under Affliction

Ambition is but avarice on stilts.— filed under Ambition

I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a Book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.— filed under Bible