Alexander Smith (31 December 1829 – 5 January 1867, 8 January according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ) was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School .
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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. Go to Quote / Comment
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once. Go to Quote / Comment
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander. Go to Quote / Comment
Christmas is the day that holds all time together. Go to Quote / Comment
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life Go to Quote / Comment