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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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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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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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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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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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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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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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 joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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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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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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