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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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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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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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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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We need new friends some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
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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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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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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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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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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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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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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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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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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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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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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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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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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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