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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. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

Life

People

Feel

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Grow

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Most

Vanity

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" The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. "

" It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. "

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" There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. "

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Men

Imagine

" I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. "

" 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. "