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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.
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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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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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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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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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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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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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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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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