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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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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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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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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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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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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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