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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
Walter Savage Landor
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
Hope is the mother of faith.
Walter Savage Landor
Children are what the mothers are.
Walter Savage Landor
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
