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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Trifles
Mortal
Mortals
Misery
Happiness
Make
Time
Life

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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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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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