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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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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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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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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 ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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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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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
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Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
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There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
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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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