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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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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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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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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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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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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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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
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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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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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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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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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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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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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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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