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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 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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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 laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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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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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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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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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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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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