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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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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
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Character
Best
Real
Men
World
Stage
Alone

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In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present with the book I am in the past.
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Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
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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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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
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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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Trees are your best antiques
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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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