Walter Savage Landor (January 30, 1775-September 17, 1864) was an English author and poet. His best-known work, Imaginary Conversations, was published between 1824-29. Walter Savage Landor declared:
<To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.> 1775WL001
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1775WL001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Walter Savage Landor. Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of Thoughts-A Cyclopedia of Quotations (Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1852; revised and enlarged by C.H. Catrevas, Ralph Emerson Browns and Jonathan Edwards [descendent, along with Tryon, of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), president of Princeton], 1891; The Standard Book Company, 1955, 1963), p. 46.