Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.Alexander Smith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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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.
Alexander Smith
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Alexander Smith
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