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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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The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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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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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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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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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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It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories for it they did not, they would burst.
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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 let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop you.
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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