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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.


Alexander Smith

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ALEXANDER SMITH To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
ALEXANDER SMITH If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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ALEXANDER SMITH To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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ALEXANDER MCQUEEN For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting t...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN You can only go forward by making mistakes.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to...
ALEXANDER LOWEN The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
ALEXANDER HAIG The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL