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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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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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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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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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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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