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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
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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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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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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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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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces 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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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
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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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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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Don't tell friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
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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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If it's to be, it's up to me.
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