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)

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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