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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

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Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.90

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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. - Walter Savage Landor

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