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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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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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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'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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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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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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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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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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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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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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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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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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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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