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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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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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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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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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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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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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