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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.
Alexander Smith
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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Results
Maps
May
Note
Savants
Ever
Kingdom
Survey
Human
Kingdoms
Surveys
Humans
Notes
Reliable
Men
Result
Poorest
World
Personality
Globe
Produce
Globes
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