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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.
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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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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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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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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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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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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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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