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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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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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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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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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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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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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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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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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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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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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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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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
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