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A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
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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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
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All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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