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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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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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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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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
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