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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

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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
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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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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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