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 SmithTPVgb reprinted; Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country, “Men of Letters,” 1863
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