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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith
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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
Wish
Frankness
Statesmanship
Wrap
Wraps
Secrecy
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Secret
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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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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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
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