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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
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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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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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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An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
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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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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
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How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
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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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The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
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