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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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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?
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
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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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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to 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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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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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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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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