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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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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
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It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories for it they did not, they would burst.
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