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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Walter Savage Landor
Writing, Profound, Looks
'Imaginary Conversations' (1824) 'Southey and Porson'

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor
Wise, Wisdom, Writing
Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

Walter Savage Landor
Moving, Writing, Fields
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.125

It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

Walter Savage Landor
Writing, Men, Thinking
Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

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