Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Writing
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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
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It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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