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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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Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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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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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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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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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
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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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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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All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
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To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
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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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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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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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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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