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The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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