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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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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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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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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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