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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories for it they did not, they would burst.
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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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