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Walter Savage Landor Quotes: We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
         

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.


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