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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
Men
World
Stage
Alone
Comes
Also
Character
Best
Real

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The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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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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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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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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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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