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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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New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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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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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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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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