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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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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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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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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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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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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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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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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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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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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
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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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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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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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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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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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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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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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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 lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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