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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?
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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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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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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People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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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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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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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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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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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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