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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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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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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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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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People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
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An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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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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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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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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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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