Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor
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More Quotes By Walter Savage Landor
  1. No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

  2. What is reading but silent conversation.

  3. Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

  4. 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.

  5. When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

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