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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Reputations
Unkind
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Worse
World

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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We need new friends some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
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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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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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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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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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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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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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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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