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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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
Certain
Suits
Work
Fairs
Fair
Praise
Taste
Whichever
Action
Pudding
Happens
Wage
Reality
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
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Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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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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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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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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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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