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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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Men
World
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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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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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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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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It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
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It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
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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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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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