American - Writer | October 18, 1865 - March 2, 1946
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
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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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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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