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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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