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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
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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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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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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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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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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