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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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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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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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