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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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Literary Critic
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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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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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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop you.
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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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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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