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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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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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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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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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The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.
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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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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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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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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.
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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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Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
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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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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
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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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Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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