Alexander Smith

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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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. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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Trees are your best antiques. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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