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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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One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.
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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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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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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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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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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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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