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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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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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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People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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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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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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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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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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