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This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Happiness
Vice
Long
Subtle
Life
Vices
Selfish
Unpunished
Joy
Chilled
Nice
Intoxication
Age
Serene
Reading
Polite

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