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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
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