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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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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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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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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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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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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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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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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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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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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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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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