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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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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If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
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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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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations when they drop them they will drop you.
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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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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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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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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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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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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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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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People have a right to be shocked the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
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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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