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

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
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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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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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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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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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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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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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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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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.
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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop 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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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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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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