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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny

I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

Walter Savage Landor
Men, House, Mind
Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”, p.90

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Walter Savage Landor
Appreciation, Men, Long
Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.305

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