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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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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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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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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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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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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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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The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
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