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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Wrap
Wraps
Secrecy
Preserve
Preserves
Secret
Wish
Frankness
Statesmanship

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I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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