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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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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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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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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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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
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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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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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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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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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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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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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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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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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