Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and t… - Walter Savage Landor

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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor (January 30 1775 – September 17 1864) was an English prose-writer on themes drawn from literary history, a verse-dramatist, and a poet.

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Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife;
Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art.
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Wearers of rings and chains!
Pray do not take the pains To set me right.
In vain my faults ye quote;
I write as others wrote On Sunium’s hight.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one. - Walter Savage Landor

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