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Alexander Smith Quotes

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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Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Scottish Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 31, 1830
Date of Death:
January 5, 1867
Nationality:
Scottish
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