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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop you.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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Young
People
Aspirations
Aspiration
Drop
Youth

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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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.
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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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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One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
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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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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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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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