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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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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop 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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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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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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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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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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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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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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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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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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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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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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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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