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

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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
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Unkind
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Worse
World

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
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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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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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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A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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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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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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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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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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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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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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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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