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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
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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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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see 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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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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