Alexander Smith Quotes

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• In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it…
• If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
• If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains…
• 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…
• Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
• 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.
• A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
• A poem round and perfect as a star.
• A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
• Books are a finer world within the world.
• Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
• A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
• Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
• In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it…

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