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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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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. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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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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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction? ↗

— Arthur Smith

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I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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