Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
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Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is t...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL Strive to make something of yourself; then strive to make the most of yourself.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of ...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sens...
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL