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Quote by Alexander Smith
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. – Alexander Smith

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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. – Alexander Smith

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith

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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. – Tecumseh

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Death is softer by far than tyranny. – Aeschylus

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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. – W. C. Fields

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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. – Anna Akhmatova

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I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. – Gertrude Stein

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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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