Walter Savage Landor - Truth, like the juice o...

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Walter Savage Landor

English Poet

Born: Jan 30, 1775

Died: Sep 17, 1864

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Truth, Men, Consequences, Small, Excess, Attended, Like, Quantities, Calms, Juice, Irritates, Them, Poppy, Larger, Fatal

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Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth

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