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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.
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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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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