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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
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Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
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The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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