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It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories for it they did not, they would burst.
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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New Jersey
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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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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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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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